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Eating an Edible Helium Balloon Looks Like the Most Fun You Can Have at a...
The chefs at Alinea, very probably the best restaurant in Chicago, have cooked up a super fun dish that'll brighten up any dinner table: an edible helium balloon. Yep, the entire balloon is edible,...
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Chinese Villages Use Giant Balloons to Steal Natural Gas
What would simple gas to cook, or heat your home during the winter? Would you be willing to fill a giant bag full with natural gas and carry it into your home, at the risk of, well, exploding? Because...
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The World’s Largest Rube Goldberg Machine Is a Balloon-Busting Masterpiece
If you thought Purdue’s previous Rube Goldberg machine was impressive, a 156-step burger making contraption, you’ll be ‘blown away’ with its latest creation. A 300-step machine whose sole purpose is to...
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Hundreds Of Balloons Fall Victim to a Giant Laser
Watching thousands upon thousands of dominos fall in series just doesn’t excite us like it used to. OK, it was never really that exciting. So we’re hoping the next fad has people using high-powered...
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Inflatable Meat Balloons Are the Perfect Decorations For Your Next BBQ
Last week’s cupcake-filled sausages put a damper on our appreciation of all things meat. But our mood has been considerably improved now that we’ve discovered these fantastic hand-made balloons that...
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Whimsical Floating Desk Supported By Balloons and Giant Jenga Pieces
After a magazine article noted that its reception area was “small and routine,” ad agency Boys and Girls decided to do something about it. So they created this brilliant floating reception desk that...
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How To Make Gigantic Glowing, Flying Art on the Cheap
Imagine you’re walking home from a bar tonight. You look up and there’s a bright, glowing, 250 square foot Super Mario flying above you. You’d probably think someone had slipped you something, but no,...
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Watching a Slow Motion Video of Water Balloons Is Jiggly Fun
When you watch a video of water balloons in slow motion, you expect to see the ballon slowly rip open, you expect to see a geyser of water gushing out, you expect an explosion. Not with this slow...
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A Guy Wants to Fly Across the Atlantic Ocean Using a Bunch of Balloons Just...
We’ll forgive you for mistaking Jonathan Trappe for Carl Fredriksen of the Pixar movie Up. Like Fredriksen, Trappe is a “cluster balloonist” who likes to fly around the world with a bunch of balloons,...
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How Many Balloons Would You Actually Need To Lift a House?
Today we reported about Jonathan Trappe, a man who’s hoping to fly a tiny balloon-tethered house across the Atlantic ocean. But his Up-inspired planning would probably have been a lot easier had he...
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Watch a Balloon Explode 100,000 Feet Above the Earth
We’ve seen a lot of DIY space balloons, and they’re all usually pretty similar to look at. Balloon goes UP. Balloon comes DOWN. Sorta-outer-space in between. Caleb Anderson’s looks a little different....
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A Sculpture Made of 10,000 Balloons Redefines Balloon Art
Jason Hackensworth is a balloon artist, but not the kind that wears oversized shoes and has been the villain in a 1990 horror movie. He’s known for his balloon sculptures of biological forms and...
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Google Wants to Use Balloons to Cover the World in Wi-Fi
If you go deep inside the desert or climb a mountain or find yourself in the South Pole or a remote farm or any place that can be considered ‘the middle of no where’, guess what? You have no internet....
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Bursting Balloons Never Looked So Beautiful
This picture might look like some kind of tacky holiday decoration, but in fact it’s what you get if you manage to photograph a paint-covered balloon just milliseconds after it’s popped. The image was...
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Would You Trust a Helium-Filled Floating Venue On Your Wedding Day?
If you like the idea of an outdoor wedding, but not the idea of setting up a tent which can be a hassle, you might want to reach out to design studio Qastic. As part of the Connecticut-based firm’s...
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Google’s Crazy Internet Balloons Will Flock Together Like Cyborg Birds
Google’s Project Loon is sort of insane. Then again, that’s kind of the point. And to make it actually work, the squadrons of balloons are taking a cue from nature. Filling the sky with...
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Man Flying to Europe with Helium Balloons Gives Up After Just 350 Miles
Well, that was quick. Balloon-loving daredevil Jonathan Trappe was supposed to float all the way to Europe under 370 helium-filled balloons in three to six days, but he gave up after only 12 hours...
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What’s Actually Inside the Antennas of Google’s Wild Internet Balloons
When Google first announced Project Loon, its plan to cover the world in a blanket of Wi-Fi using internet balloons, it was sort of hard to believe. It still is, but now Google’s taking us inside the...
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Weird Bowls Made Using Balloons Filled With Rice, Marbles, and Pasta
If you’re ranking fun things to put in a balloon, helium probably tops the list, followed probably by water and then plain old human huffin’ and puffin’. But a fascinating thing happens when dry rice...
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