Nature always has spectacular moments. But when two phenomenons
meet, then it’s good when you’re equipped with a camera. In this case,
a bushfire has started in Australia and caused the air to twirl up forming
a tornado. The fire itself uses the funnel to climb up into the smoke clouds.

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The hunt for world records is always active. And Hot Wheels seems to see
the Guinness Book Of World Records as a good marketing instrument.
In this video, wou’ll witness the World record for a 4wheeled quad doing
a corkscrew spin using a specially slanted ramp.

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It’s not often that you se fascinating things. But walls that do 3D shaping to
display objects and patterns are not seen everyday. In Korea at the
Hyundai Motor Group Pavillion a room having 3 sides equipped with
movable squares was shown at the EXPO 2012.

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When discussing about climatic changes caused by man with a co-worker,
she told me that New York has been struck by a tornado. I just thought,
she was shittin’ me but Google taught me better: On September 8th, 2012
a tornado has struck the NY borough Queens leaving some destruction.

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Today in about 7 hours, Apple will open doors to it’s Keynote event in
California, USA. The long awaited (new) iPhone (5) will be presented.
With it, also the iPad mini will celebrate its debute to fire against Kindle
and other small form factor tablet PCs. So what will the new iPhone be?

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Driving sometimes can suck if you’re in a traffic jam for example.
There are several drivers developing some sort of odd workarounds to
evade the traffic jam. Many are successful but some end in epic fail!
This driver has chosen the second option. Overtaking and monorailing!

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Definitely a bad idea to drive a bulldozer while having too much alcohol.
This bulldozer driver had one, two, too many drinks and still decided to
mount his vehicle and start driving. I am not sure whether he tried to
evade the car that’s heading towards him or if he wanted revenge.

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During a fuilade, a man lost his life again by police power. 46 shots have been
fired. The police of Michigan stated that the man was considered a severe
threat to the officers and ready to stab the officers with the knife armed.
At current, the man’s body is obducted if he has been subject to drugs.

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When it comes to police and USA, you’d better know how to behave. One
man in New York hd the bad luck to face NYPD officers with an itchy
trigger finger and got shot. The problem: He was armed with a knife and
seems to have offended the officers. 12 bullets ended this man’s life!

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If you ever wondered, who’s behind the german voice of Homer Simspon,
this video might be interesting for you: The following short portrait of
Norbert Gastell (82) gives you a short insight of his career. For 22 years now
he lends his voice to Homer Simspon. With great success!

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So the NASA has finally placed a robot on the surface of Mars to explore
it’s surface. The question is, what’s so interesting about a planet that is
most likely not containing life (due to it’s atmospheric consistence) and
most likely won’t have any valuable ressources on it?

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Car crashes are spectacular. Abd if they’re on footage material, it’s much
more spectacular. I’ve take some together for your viewing pleasure.
Some are funny, some are crazy, some are spectacular. Never thought,
that there are so many car crashes within such a small time period.

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What looks funny, could also be dangerous, sure. In this case I had some
serious thinking active when watching this guy lifting a heavy weight up.
Unfortunately he stopped breathing to save energy(?) with the fatal
effect of collapsing. Fortunately he didn’t hurt much. Now you’re warned!

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Laws can be a real nuisance today. Especially the USA make it almost impossible
NOT to break any law. Even if you don’t know it for sure, you run risk into
breaking the law. So it happened to two men from Seattle, that they broke the law
when being in Canada and buying some treats for their children.

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Collapsing buildings always look spectacular. Even more when you see
five 200m tall cooling towers of a coal power plant collapsing within
seconds. What looks like “piece of cake” in the video is the result of a
monthlong planning and engineering to avoid surrounding damage.

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Again on the Road in Russia. This time, a rig driver thought, he’d change
driving direction on the go and makes an U-Turn at the most unfitting
position/situation. Not looking what the counter traffic does, can be very
dangerous. This video shows, what happens when two rigs collide.

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The iPhone – base for many gadget ideas, enhanced by Apps that utilize
the integrated peripherals such as the flashLED and the vibration motor
in other ways than intended. There’s almost nothing which hasn’t been
tried with the iPhone. But a taser? With the power of 630.000 volts?

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Dog poo can be very annoying. In most citis there’s no obey to clean the
dogs’ poo away. So if you’re not watching your step carefully, you’ll find
yourself stepping into dog poo. Smelly and not very comfy feeling! Also
the smell ain’t charming the nose! Time for revenge.

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Odd contests around the world? Yep, there are many of them. Cellphone
throwing, Caber tossing, Hotdog eating, water-drinking. Yes and even a
burp contest is available for your convenience. Well… most of them are
more of fun then a real challenge if properly regarded.

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It seems as if the chinese people are planing to top Burj Khalifa which is
currently the talles building on earth with it’s 826 metres height. The
company BSB (Broad Sustainable Building) which was also involved in
building a 30 storeys tall hotel in only 15 days, plans to raise the planned…

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If you ever thought, Tornadoes are only for the American continent then guess
again. Today, Venice has been struck by a tornado which could be of F4 category
if you compare the size of it to common tornadoes. Detailed information is not
available yet. Currently it seems as if there are no killed people, fortunately.

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This year’s NDC (Norwegian Developer’s Conference) from Microsoft seems
to have been a bit weird and shameful for Microsoft. During a very odd dance
show where light-suited women have danced during a modifies Scooter song,
the words “Micro” and “Soft” have flashed on the teleprompters.

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Fooling someone can be fun, but you should know where to stop and whom
not to fool around with. In this case, the so-called “Pee Prank” which seems
famous in the USA, had a bad turnaround for some people participating.
So what’s this “Pee Prank” anyways?

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How close can a car being parked in parallel without touching the car in
front of and behind? How much distance in between did you have when
doing so? 1 meter, 80cm, 60cm or even closer? Well forget about these
“records”. The chinese Han Yu only needed 15cm to park his car.

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Maybe it sounds funny when you go to a wash saloon and read a sign, saying
“Junior Wash – $2.95” – Especially when you have your kid with you. But I
don’t think it’s a wise idea to put the kid into the washing machine just for a
joke. Alone because the machine is auto-starting when you close the door.

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This question is easily answered: You don’t know what you do and how things
turn into weapons if improperly used. In Singapore a taxi driver and a taxi
user have died in a horrible but also spectacular crash. The driver, a young
rich chinesse guy totaled his rare Ferrari 599 GT… and lost his life too!

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As you may have noticed already, I am also blogging about great technical
achievements. The one I am posting about right now is one of such. In this
case an old building at Zurich main station has to be moved by 60 metres to
make room for more tracks to the main station. This timelapse shows the…

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I have already posted some videos, how dangerous driving in Russia can be.
This video is no exception and goes one step further. I guess You all know the
zipper scheme when you are on a two-lane intersection. slow down your car,
let the car next to you slip in between. But what happens if you don”t give in?

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I already mentionned, that I like Timelapse videos. This time, it’s from the
construction site of the Freedom Tower in New York where a camera has
recorded pictures of the construction over 8 years. They are now finally put
together into a 2 minutes long timelapse video. The result is amazing!

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This is amazing. While browsing youtube in my lunch break I stumbled upon
this really nice video. While here one is securing his bike with a heavy lock,
the chinese people seem to use much more “natural” ressources to protect
their transportation device. The follwoing video is self-explaining! Have fun!

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Unbelievable, but true: The italian plumber Mario is now over 30 years
dominating the gaming scene. And it doesn’t look like as if he gets tired at all!
So when did you get in touch with Nintendo and it’s world-famous mascot that
brought Nintendo an immense breakthrough? Watch the video to find out!

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I really like nature videos. One fact is that it’s amazing how nature itself is
dealing with unexprected changes and the other is how tiny little critters
are fightimg a bigh behemoth. In this video you’ll see how japanese bees
are finishing off a big hornet. 30 Hornets can kill 30’000 bees in 3 hours!

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