Destroy Your Easter Finery in Super Slow-Mo
What’s better than a tranquil tea party? How’s about a tranquil tea party being utterly destroyed in spectacular fashion by a slingshot? Great, now put that in slow motion. What you are about to see is...
View ArticleThis Full Length Dredd Trailer Has Serious Gunfire and Grime In Impressive...
The Judge Dredd reboot might be a while out just now, but we’ve finally be treated to a full length trailer packed with more drugs, grime, crime and gunfire than you can shake a stick at. Dredd pits...
View ArticleHow Many Elastic Bands Does It Take to Make a Watermelon Explode In Slo-Mo?
I was asking myself that very question just the other day; thankfully the Slow Mo Guys have some sort of an answer for me in glorious, everything-is-better-in-slo-mo. They don’t actually say precisely...
View ArticleSlow-Motion Flaming Tennis Should Be an Official Olympic Sport
It looks like the usual tennis superstars are going to walk away with all the medals at this year’s Olympic games—yawn. So to make it more interesting and unpredictable four years from now, perhaps the...
View ArticleWatching Petrol Bombs Explode in Slow Motion Is Strangely Mesmerising
You’ve got yourself a new Go Pro, and you’re a farmer so you’ve got an empty shed; what do you do? I know — how about hurl Molotov cocktails at a wall while filming at 120fps. Genius. You’ve got to...
View ArticleBubbles Bursting At 18,000 FPS Is as Hypnotic as It Sounds
We’ve probably all seen high-speed footage of soap bubbles detonating in mid-air. But footage shot at 18,000 frames per second? That brings a whole new level of awesome to this childhood pastime. Just...
View ArticleStare In Awe At Wet Hedgehogs, Rats, and Dogs Shaking In Super Slow Motion
Slo-mo footage of wet dogs shaking themselves dry are a pound a penny online. But wet dogs and wet hedgehogs and rats? Now that’s something new, and we can thank BBC Earth Productions for this...
View ArticleA Hawk Hunting in Super Slow Motion Will Make You Glad You’re Not Its Prey
BBC Earth Productions is back with another mesmerising bit of high-speed footage that captures hawks as they’re swooping in to attack their prey. Seeing all of the bird’s complex feather mechanics in...
View ArticleWatch Levi Sherwood “Shaolin” Backflip His Motorcycle At 1000 FPS
Levi Sherwood is a professional freestyle motocrosser that hails from New Zealand. He’s also the reigning Red Bull X-Fighters champion, which is a freestyle motocross competition that sees these guys...
View ArticleA Slo-Mo Mouse Eye View of a Barn Owl Swooping In For the Kill Is Terrifying
Given you rarely see owls in the day outside of a zoo or museum setting, you’ve probably never thought of them as stone cold killers. But when hunting at night they can be as terrifying as a hawk,...
View ArticleShaolin Warrior Stunts Are Even Crazier In Slo-Mo
If you live in a fairly well-populated city you’ve probably been visited by one of those Shaolin Warrior travelling shows. But the next time they roll through your town you should save your money and...
View ArticleIncredible Slo-Mo Footage Of the Pistol Shrimp’s Devastating Attack
Most clawed crustaceans use their pincers like a pair of deadly scissors, either for defense or tearing apart their prey. But the Pistol Shrimp has developed a far more devastating use for it. Its claw...
View ArticleSlo-Mo Lightning Footage Is Why High Speed Cameras Were Invented
The odds of capturing a lightning bolt on a high-speed camera in the wild are probably pretty similar to getting hit yourself — slim to nil. So to vastly improve their chances, the slo-mo team at BBC...
View ArticleHigh Speed Footage Reveals an AK-47 Works Even Better Under Water
The AK-47 can be considered the Casio watch of the gun world. It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking, except that by ticking we of course mean firing round after round of ammunition. The automatic...
View ArticleWhoa, What Makes This Chain of Beads Magically Float?
Here’s a brilliant experiment you can do at home if you’ve got yourself a lengthy chain of metal beads, and a container big enough to hold them. You just take one end of the chain out and drop it so...
View ArticleBehold the Molten Glory of Thermite in Slow Motion
Thermite is one of the most ridiculously dangerous and completely awesome pyro concoctions out there. We’ve already seen it completely devour a laptop, and what could be better than that? Thermite...
View ArticleAn Underwater Bullet at 27,450 FPS Is Breathtaking
You may remember our friend Destin at Smarter Every Day shooting an AK-47 underwater. It was a cool experiment, but the pressure caused the aquarium to shatter, ruining what we now know would have been...
View ArticleBlowing Up a Building In Slo-Mo Is a Great Way To Start the Month
Is there a better way to ring in November than watching a controlled explosion? Sure there is, if said explosion was captured by a Phantom Flex high-speed camera at 2,500 fps. The Slow Mo Guys are back...
View ArticleNASA Engineers Built an Insanely Complex Bullet-Time Rig For Fun
Back in May, our friend and ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober, figured out a way to shoot “bullet time” videos on the cheap, with a ceiling fan, a pair of flashlights, and a GoPro. Pretty damn creative,...
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