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Want to pick up your date? Forget your car. Don’t send a taxi. Send two R/C helicopters to pick her up and really impress her.

HeliGraphix is a club of radio controlled helicopter hobbyists that perform crazy stunts and puts the videos online. Seen here, their latest project is HULC, which stands for Heavy Ultra Lifter Crane.

This is a demo to show just how powerful two heavy duty helicopters can be when working in tandem. The team says that it has completed the first successful human flight by R/C aircraft. The proof is right here. They did several flights, some of them lasted over 40 seconds.

It is pretty impressive to watch. Sorry guys, this technique won’t help you kidnap a girl. She has to grab on willingly.

[via Core77 via Neatorama]

It’s a fine line that gadget fans have to walk, moderating our techno-lust just enough that we don’t start hurting people. It’s a lesson that LG Korea has just learned the hard way after a promotional event for the new G2 caused 20 people to be injured. The “G in the cloud” event in Seoul involved launching hundreds of helium balloons into the air, carrying vouchers for free handsets — which some members of the crowd tried to shoot down using BB guns. The company has already apologized to those who were inadvertently shot and will cover the cost of their medical care, while subsequent events have been called off. What’s wrong with a raffle?

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Via: AndroidBeat

Source: Korea Times

There aren’t as many big bands and artists holding out on streaming or downloaded music as there used to be, but there’s unquestionably still some noticeable omissions on today’s most popular services. One of those gaps now looks set to be filled, though, as a tweet from the official Pink Floyd Twitter account has all but confirmed that the band’s entire back catalog will soon be available to stream on Spotify. The catch is that it’ll only be available once “Wish You Were Here” is streamed a million times. Not quite as original as a flying pig as far as publicity stunts go, to be sure, but we’re not ones to discourage you from listening to a little Floyd on repeat.

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Via: Tech Digest

Source: Spotify, @pinkfloyd (Twitter)

The evolution of the backflip has been making its way through extreme sports for years. First we had athletes in skis doing backflips off of ramps, then it was bicycles, then motorcycles, then snowmobiles, and now we’re starting to see actual cars do backflips. In an effort to take on Red Bull’s crazy stunts, Monster Energy took a Mini Countryman SUV and gave it the backflip treatment.

Monster Energy claims it’s the world’s first car backflip, and we can’t really refute that since we’ve never seen it before until now. The driver behind the wheel is Rally Raid world champion Guerlain Chicherit, who spent four years preparing for the stunt. A teaser was posted earlier last month showing off the Mini vehicle in mid-air, but didn’t show the landing — we’re guessing that the first couple of test runs didn’t go so well.

To skip the intro and go straight to the jump, skip to the 0:34 mark.

Granted, the ramps were built specifically to make a small car do a backflip, but that doesn’t make the feat any less impressive. And according to Monster, Chicherit actually performed the stunt twice, both of which were successful jumps — one of which was a test run, and the other was in front of a crowd of spectators.

What do you think the next thing to do a backflip will be? A semi? A tank? Well, it’s not likely a semi or a tank could do a backflip, but you never know. We never thought a snowmobile could do a backflip but here we are witnessing it today. It could be only a matter of time before we see even more crazy things done with heavy machinery.

[via Jalopnik]

Mini Countryman performs first-ever car backflip is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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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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