Tag: POPCORN

Surely, we've all heard the old saying: "He's smart enough to make it rain, but doesn't have the sense to come in from out of it." Well, the man behind the YouTube handle 'WorldScott' has successfully popped a single kernel of corn with the help of two lasers. And that one kernel took only one minute of being bombarded with lasers. Somebody get this boy an umbrella. ...

If you consider pushing a button on a microwave one too many steps between you and a bowl of popcorn, a new invention may allow you to cook up a steaming pile of Orville Redenbacher from the comfort of your own Twitter account. Created by Dave Britt and Justin Goeres, Popcorn Tweets is a new device that creates fluffy balloons of popcorn deliciousness at the click of a mouse. Whenever anyone ...

In the far-out, sci-fi future of 2009, robots are doing some pretty amazing things, like capturing prowlers, assembling communications networks, and playing Rock / Paper / Scissors. Now, with a little help from RoBe:Do and Twitter, robotics has achieved what may be its crowning achievement: couch-side popcorn delivery. Coppa is a $1,649 software-ready robot (you supply the machine's netbook ...

You paying attention, Redenbacher? Those daring kids at Instructables have created the USB Popcorn Maker from a high intensity heater light, aluminum cup, and mason jar. Add oil, non-Linux kernels, and salt and you're ready to cozy-up in an uncomfortable three-some with the Wachowski Brothers. Unfortunately, the video posted after the break jump-cuts between USB attachment and the first corn ...

Remember the popcorn video clip we posted earlier this week, in which a trio of cellphones arranged in a circle supposedly caused a handful of kernels to pop? We knew the vids were fake, and speculated that they were part of some sort of marketing scheme. Now we have confirmation: The clips are indeed part of a viral advertising campaign, put together by a company called Cardo Systems, which ...