In a hilarious ad for FiberFix, the “strong as steel” tape that had been successfully funded through Shark Tank, a rather well-spoken, mustachioed character with a prominent southern drawl (played by actor Jason Gray), demonstrated its very real benefits by safely going over a cliff in a car with a roll cage taped with FiberFix.

The ad was created by the Harmon Brothers, the team who put together the brilliant Squatty Potty ad that featured an ice-cream pooping magical unicorn.

Here’s the behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot.

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The American Chemical Society series Reactions broke down the very real and potentially dangerous consequences of peeing in the pool. Urine reacts to chlorine and other chemicals used to treat pool, and those reactions create new compounds with some harmful effects.

Our pools are full of disinfectant chemicals that keep then free of microorganisms, but what you might not realize is that those same chemicals are interacting with, well, you. Today we’re talking poolchem, and we’re going to answer that age old question that’s been pondered in the back of every deep end swimmer’s mind – is it really okay to pee in the pool?

In 2007, musician, experimental instrument maker and Marcodi Musical Products founder Tim Meeks, created the Harpeggi, a really cool stringed, amplified instrument that employs the principles of guitar, piano, harp and percussion. The player taps the strings with one finger rather than forming chords to strum and can use the wooden frame to provide a back beat.

The harpejji is a member of a small family of stringed musical instruments known as tapping instruments. Tapping instruments are decedents of the electric guitar but are optimized for a style of playing that involves tapping on the strings to produce a note. One of the primary benefits of this style of playing is that it only requires one finger to make each note, unlike strumming which requires at least one finger on each hand to make a note. By freeing up more fingers, the player has the freedom to play arrangements that are physically too difficult to play with the more traditional playing techniques. Unlike all other commercially available tapping instruments, the harpejji has a keyboard-inspired playing interface that many will find easier to learn, more comfortable to play and more interesting to explore.

via Rare and Strange Instruments

KickStick is a motorised staff designed by Rise Robotics that can power a rider on a skateboard up to 30 mph. The staff folds up for portability, features replaceable batteries for long riding sessions, and is built to be both durable and ergonomic.

Rise Robotics will be launching an Indiegogo campaign for the device soon, and interested parties can sign up for a chance to win a KickStick.

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“Abuse” by French Canadian artist Laurent Craste is a satirically humorous sculpture series that features innocent porcelain vases, his familiar medium, that have suffered greatly varying forms of abuse, leading up to their very tragic and untimely deaths.

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Four skydivers performed an impressive synchronized dance routine inside a wind tunnel.

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Last week we shared video of inventor Colin Furze‘s enormous backyard 360 swing and his making-of videos about the build. As promised by Furze at the end of that first video, he has added a two-stroke paramotor to the contraption to allow for some intense powered spinning that left him feeling a little sick.

Yes of corse i had to power this in some way and i know the first suggestion is a pulse jet but my neighbourly relations are being tested enough with just the sight of this thing so then shaking their house’s with the raw of a jet seemed a step to far so i’ve settled for the calming noise of a 2stroke paramotor.
Now not sure how much faster this looks but i can tell you it felt a lot faster, so much so that holding on was less about falling down to the ground but being thrown to the sky, the consentration needed to move finger to shut of engine was even a task.
With paramotor being around the right counterweight even the engine at tick over made the swing speed up, so all this put together it just made me feel SICK hahaha…….but was a good bad idea

Drone operator Karl Beadle, who filmed the aerial footage for Furze’s video, also posted a behind-the-scenes look at the swing, and even jumped on for a ride himself.

New York graphic artists Brian Tessler and Jon Baken of Cool 3D World have created the oddly bizarre 3D animation “Men in Chars” featuring a large group of naked men who are floating over an ocean and spinning around while seated in chairs. It gets even more bizarre when the men start screaming at the top of their lungs while a boat floats by and gives them a friendly horn blow.

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