Extreme Slow Motion Bullet Video

The above video was taken at one million frames per second, so fast that you can watch the individual cracks forming as a bullet shatters a sheet of glass. The video is much art as science; both mesmerizing and illustrative of just what a narrow realm of matter and velocity we exist in. At these velocities a bullet deforms like a lump of butter, a sheet of steel no more substantial than paper.

(Via Geekologie)

Underwater Combat Knife

Don’t you hate it when you are out for a swim and you get swallowed by a whale? WASP Injection Systems has the product for you: A hollow knife with a CO2 cartridge in the handle. Just jab it into the offending predator and push the button. Not only will you have an instant balloon animal, but it will be rapidly carried toward the surface with the marine equivalent of cement galoshes.