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Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy are better known as the Slow Mo Guys on their YouTube channel. They love to see how things look in slow motion, from exploding giant water balloons, to their latest feat: spinning a vinyl record so fast that it shatters. Their camera films 343,000 frames per second! Everything’s amazing in slow mo!
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One man decided to take advantage of the low prices at a Toys R Us store closing sale, and bought 5400 plastic ball pit balls. Then he put them in his hallway to make his husky the happiest dog in the world! It’s every doggie’s dream! Go get the ball boy!
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Have you ever wondered what garlic bread would taste like on the edge of space? YouTubers Tom Scott, Steve Randall and Barry Lewis sent a loaf of garlic bread up 22 miles, attached to a weather balloon. When it came back down, they ate it. The stratospheric bread was a little frozen in the middle, but still delicious!
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A fun-loving dog was trying his best to get a stranger to play fetch with him; too bad it was actually a statue! Adam Shore’s border collie, Hurley, kept dropping his ball at the foot of a life-sized metal man on the beach in Liverpool, England. Adam recorded it, and Hurley is now a YouTube sensation!
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Drue Chrisman is a football player at Ohio State University, but he’s set a world record in a different sport. He’s a champion bottle flipper! He flipped 63 half-filled water bottles in one minute! He shows off his mastery of bottle flip tricks on YouTube. I can flip a bottle too. It just won’t land upright!
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Australian Feliks Zemdegs matched a world record held by Steve Cho when he solved a Rubik’s cube in 4.59 seconds. Feliks says he’s no math whiz; he just looked up some online tutorials on YouTube and got addicted. He started when he was 12 and has been improving his time for the last 10 years.
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Today is National Bean Day and National Technology Day! To celebrate, make a big bowl of bean soup. Then use YouTube technology to find “Vegetable Soup”, a great kids’ television show. Instead of watching it at 6:00 Saturday morning like kids in the 70’s, you can enjoy it with your bean soup lunch!
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A YouTube prankster had to be rescued when his stunt went too far. Jay Swingler from England cemented his head into a microwave oven and filmed it to put on YouTube. Then firefighters had to spend an hour trying to free him. I guess you could call him a blockhead!
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