Hasta La Gadget!

Your washing machine is kind enough to handle your laundry without a complaint. For that it deserves respect. Aussie50 has no such respect. Watch his poor washer tear itself asunder, powerless to prevent spectacular self-destruction the hands of its own spin cycle. Watch as it tries to escape through sheer force of centrifugal will. Watch it fail. More »

Have you ever sat on a chair that seemingly looked sturdy, but eventually gave way under your butt? I have, and let me tell you, while it sounds funny, it’s extremely painful (and embarrassing!) Unfortunately, we only have the chair to blame… or don’t we?

I would say that would be true in most cases, except for the DRM chair. It doesn’t look particularly special – in fact, it looks pretty plain and poorly made, even. But what makes it different is the fact that it self-destructs after eight ‘sits’ or eight uses, whatever you want to call it. It’s fitted with a small sensor that keeps track of how many times it has been sat on. When the counter hits zero, the chair’s structural joints melt down and it essentially falls apart. Watch it in action in the video below:

The chair was made by a group of ECAL students for the worldwide art and engineering competition The Deconstruction.

[via Creative Applications Network via Dvice]

Counterfeit goods that get found out often get destroyed. That should come as no surprise. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to watch, especially if the fakes are convincing. Take this Russian crush-fest, for example, where a bulldozer demolished 127 iPhones found to be cheap imitations masquerading as the real thing. At least let’s hope they weren’t real. Either way, they look close enough that watching them be crushed into wreckage is still kind of rough, but at the same time you can’t look away. [Bit Rebels] More »

Wicked Lasers is a company that makes a lot of crazy bright laser pointers. In fact, some of these things you shouldn’t even call laser “pointers” because they can actually set things on fire and pop balloons – they’re more like laser weapons. The company also makes an insanely powerful flashlight that can burn paper.

In keeping with the Internet tradition of destroying every new Apple gadget to hit the market in creative new ways, Wicked Lasers trained five of its 1.25W Spyder III Arctic laser pointers at the same point on iPhone 5 and then turned them all on. The lasers damaged the screen and caused a bit of smoke to waft from the smartphone. However, after the lasers were turned off the iPhone 5 still functioned even though the screen was damaged pretty badly.

Wicked Lasers then turned to its crazy bright Flash Torch to finish off the iPhone 5. The flashlight ultimately killed the innocent iPhone 5 as smoke quickly began to boil out from under the flashlight when it was placed on the surface of the phone.

If you’re tuned into Brazilian national politics, maybe there’s some sort of metaphor here. But for the rest of us, awesome video of sonic boom resulting in massive destruction!—these fighters just ruined Brazil’s Supreme Court. More »