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 flipping and jumping and, generally speaking, doing really crazy shit on their bikes for people all over the world. More »
This is incredible. Unlike the shark attracting light suits of Tron surfing or the glowing outline of night skiers, seeing a wakeboarder with a light board is like seeing Picasso with a paintbrush. The tricks the wakeboarders pull makes for a visually magnetic picture. It’s like painting rainbows! More »
Red Bull has always tasted suspiciously like found bubble gum—whatever, you don’t drink it for the taste, you drink it for the pulse-racing amounts of caffeine and B-Vitamins stored in each can. Until now, that is. Red Bull’s just rolled out three new flavor editions of its energy drink and we’ve got to warn you, they’re delicious. At least, compared to what you’re used to. More »
Enjoying a nice, refreshing Red Bull as your morning pick-me-up? Swallow now. Because apparently, your energy drink of choice has found itself the victim of some good, old-fashioned poop extortion. More »
One of Gameloft’s popular mobile racing games, GT Racing: Motor Academy, is getting an update thanks to a partnership with Red Bull, which will see three new cars added to the game. The three cars are the F1 RB8 (F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel’s 2012 ride), the Camaro SS, and the Hyundai Genesis Coupe, all of which are plastered in Red Bull paint schemes.
Also, Gameloft and Red Bull Media House are partnering up and hosting an international contest that can be accessed directly through the new update in the game. Gamers all around the world will be able to compete against each other in different races, and the one with the best times will get two VIP tickets to a F1 Grand Prix.
Gonzague de Vallois, Senior Vice President of Publishing at Gameloft, says that the company is “thrilled to work with Red Bull Media House…Red Bull has been very active in the world of car racing for years, and we couldn’t be more excited to have one of our most popular racing simulations…associated with this leading brand.”
The video above shows off the three cars in action, and the update is rolling out today for the iPhone and iPad. Users who already own the game will see an update for it in their App Store app, while new users can download the game starting today that will already have the new Red Bull cars included.
GT Racing: Motor Academy gets 3 new Red Bull-themed cars is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Remember how Red Bull made that amazingly ridiculous athlete-powered Rube Goldberg machine? This is how they did it. And it includes 11 athletes, 12 different machines, 4 RED cameras, 45 GoPro cameras, a 75 person crew putting in 3,422 man hours and a helluva sawdust. More »
Driving Formula 1 cars is hard. It’s hard and it’s scary. Lucky for you, the folks at Red Bull set up a nifty 360-degree panoramic video rig on top of their own F1 racer so now you can get some of the thrill with none of the skill or the danger. More »
I’m sure everyone is familiar with skydiving, but I’m not sure everyone is familiar with a wingsuit. If you have seen the movie Transformers 3, you might remember the soldiers in the flick jumping out of an airplane wearing black suits that allow them to glide rather than simply float to the ground. The atuntmen performing that stunt in the movie were actually from the Red Bull Air Force.
Some of those same daredevils recently took a trip to Malaysia where they jumped out of an airplane and used their wingsuits to fly around some of the most iconic landmarks in the country. The stuntmen flew their wingsuits so close to the KL Tower in Kuala Lumpur that look like they were going to hit it in the video. They also flew by the iconic Petronas Twin Towers.
That particular building has two identical towers standing side-by-side with a sky bridge connecting them. The building has been in several movies so you have likely seen it before. The two men who flew between the towers were traveling at about 120 mph. Check out the video to see the daredevils in action. This isn’t quite as cool as the Red Bull sponsored Felix Baumgartner 120,000+ foot skydive, but the wingsuits are pretty amazing nonetheless.
Red Bull has been behind some very impressive stunts of late. The biggest stunt the energy drink has ever been involved with was Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking jump from 120,000 feet over the surface of the earth. Skydives from insane altitude isn’t all Red Bull sponsors.
The Red Bull Air Force recently took its wing suit flyers Jon DeVore, Miles Daisher, and Othar Lawrence to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The goal for the stunt team was to pilot their wingsuits as close as possible to some of Malaysia’s highest and most iconic buildings. The pilots use their wingsuits to fly between the Petronas Twin Towers.
Interestingly, some of the members of the Red Bull Air Force performed the wingsuit stunts in the Michael Bay blockbuster Transformers 3 in downtown Chicago. The wingsuit pilots were flying at around 120 mph in an urban environment filled with buildings and other hazards. You have to watch the video to see the stunt being performed.
These guys pass so close to the buildings that from some angles, it looks as if they’re about to crash into the building. I can only imagine how sphincter-puckering flying between those twin towers would be. Watch the video below and see for yourself.
Red Bull Air Force uses its wings in Malaysia is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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While Felix Baumgartner landed safely on the ground just a matter of hours ago, the internet is still resonating with the sound of tweets, status updates and YouTube clicks, all thanks to what was one of the most spectacular human endeavors in recent history. The mission was simple, to send a man up in a balloon higher than ever before, and have him safely jump to the ground. This kind of “simple” is usually anything but — if you just look past the well-manicured exterior. Which, as luck would have it is exactly what we did.
With the cheers of success still ringing in his ears, we got some quality time with Art Thompson, the technical project director, and Baumgartner’s earliest collaborator on the Stratos mission. We wanted to know a little bit more about what went on behind the scenes, and Thompson was more than happy to oblige. They’re understandably proud of what they just achieved.
Art Thompson, Red Bull Stratos’ technical project director, talks circuit breakers, wind shear and biomedical data originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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