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October 15, 2013

New Video Shows Stratos Skydive from Jumper’s Point of View

New Video Shows Stratos Skydive from Jumper’s Point of View
Just over a year ago on October 14, 2012, daredevil Felix Baumgartner made history with his daring jump from 128,000 feet – setting a record for the world’s highest skydive.…
September 14, 2013

Jump Genie Starts Your Car Without Another Car

Jump Genie Starts Your Car Without Another Car
It really sucks when your car won’t start. Normally you would have to bother your neighbor or get a stranger to give you a start with jumper cables.…
October 11, 2012

Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for Sunday

Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for Sunday
Update 10/14/2012: Now that the Red Bull Stratos is complete, you can view an archived copy of the jump below… If you’re paying attention to daredevil Felix Baumgartner and his desire to jump out of a pressurized capsule 23 miles above the surface, you may have noticed that he didn’t make the didn’t make the jump earlier this week.…
July 27, 2012

Daredevil Leaps from over 96,000 Feet in the Air

Daredevil Leaps from over 96,000 Feet in the Air
We’ve been following the antics of Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner for months now. Baumgartner is the daredevil who plans on jumping from over 120,000 feet in the air, setting a world record and becoming the first person to break the speed of sound without an aircraft.…
March 16, 2012

Daredevil Makes Successful Practice Jump from 71,000+ Feet

Daredevil Makes Successful Practice Jump from 71,000+ Feet
Back in February I mentioned Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner. This is the crazy man who plans to jump out of a balloon from about 120,000 feet in an attempt to set a world record and break the sound barrier without an aircraft.…
February 9, 2012

Insane Austrian Daredevil Will Attempt to Break Sound Barrier with No Aircraft

Insane Austrian Daredevil Will Attempt to Break Sound Barrier with No Aircraft
An Austrian daredevil named Felix Baumgartner plans to attempt to break the speed of sound without actually being inside of an airplane. If he is successful, he will become the first parachutist to manage that feat.…
September 6, 2011

PIGORASS 4-Legged Robot Jumps and Gallops on Its Own

PIGORASS 4-Legged Robot Jumps and Gallops on Its Own
Walking is hard enough for robots, but check out this ‘bot that can do so on four legs. He might become your future dog, if all goes according to plan for its Japanese inventors.…
June 19, 2010

E-Rope Charges Batteries as You Jump

E-Rope Charges Batteries as You Jump
The coaches that were at my elementary school were a special breed of sadists. They used to line up a bunch of first graders, hand us super long jump ropes, then stood back as we tried to jump, got tangled, fell down, and were beat with the ropes of our peers as they flopped around.…
October 17, 2009

Tetris’D Turns Tetris Into a Platformer

Tetris’D Turns Tetris Into a Platformer
When most of us think of Tetris, we think of puzzle games. But this new variant of the classic brick-stacking puzzler isn’t about that. You see, Tetris’D is a platform game.…
July 1, 2009

Queens: Simple Homebrew, Sobering Concept

Queens: Simple Homebrew, Sobering Concept
If you play any sort of video games at all, you’re probably intimately familiar with character death. We’re desensitized to it; touch the bad thing, fall off the cliff, fail the jump, and down goes your character.…
November 20, 2008

Mirror’S Edge Gets Flattened Into 2-D

Mirror’S Edge Gets Flattened Into 2-D
It looks like the new hit 3-D action platform video game Mirror’s Edge has just gotten a makeover as a 2-D Flash mini-game you can play right in you web browser.…
July 16, 2007

Powerizer Leg Springs: Perform Superhuman Feats

Powerizer Leg Springs: Perform Superhuman Feats
These crazy-looking contraptions strap on to your legs and feet, letting you fly high into the air and perform crazy stunts. The spring-loaded PoweriZers amplify the pressure of your jumps enabling you to perform death-defying feats of athleticism.…