Great Mentos Video! Coke Zero and Mentos Rocket Car!
Published June 2, 2010 | 
Team Altman Awesome Mentos Video!
About The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car
After years of work, the Coke & Mentos guys have harnessed the explosive power of these geysers and achieved human propulsion! 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints combine to propel EepyBird into the annals of unusual records.
As always enjoy, and share the Mentos Rocket Car!
How Does This Work?
First of all, this is one not to try at home.
The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car uses a piston mechanism: a six-foot long rod sits inside a six-foot long tube attached to each bottle of Coke Zero. When the Mentos drop into the soda, the pressure tries to push the rod out of the tube. With 108 rods all pushing at once, that gives us a lot of power.
All that power is pushing against a wall braced with 3,600 pounds of cement blocks, so all the force is directed into moving the Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car forward. We get one big push for six feet, and then it’s all coasting from there.
Don’t Try This at Home!
Seriously, don’t try this at home. There is a huge amount of power involved, and we don’t want you to get hurt!
Two Amazing Videos! Experiments with Post-It Notes!
Published September 6, 2009 | 
Team Altman Look at Two Awesome Post-It Notes Videos:
As always enjoy, share and what have you created with post-it notes?
Video 1: Deadline Post-It Stop Motion
“This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.”– Bang-yao Liu
Video 2: Extreme Sticky Note Experiments
Winner of a 2009 Webby Award and People’s Voice Webby Award!
“Fritz & Stephen, the madmen behind the Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments, now cause chaos in the office with over a quarter of a million sticky notes! From waterfalls to wheels, all this craziness is made out of nothing but sticky notes — the zigzag pads made from pop-up dispensers.
From a simple cascading pad to 40,000 sticky notes falling from the ceiling, this video uses 280,951 sticky notes in less than 3 minutes. And don’t worry: they can be reused! And when they’re beyond repair, we make sure to recycle them (or use them the normal way!).”