Our high-speed Phantom video camera reveals the winner in a game of knife vs. pineapple
Posted 04.11.2012 at 9:30 am
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You know that iPhone game Fruit Ninja? Where fruits are flying at you and you have to slice them in half with a finger? It's a good, mildly challenging subway diversion. Translate it to the real world, though, and suddenly the air is full of slashing blades and squirting pulp, and it's not nearly as easy to cut a fruit in half as you thought it was.
I found this out the hard way. And wasn't I lucky that our Phantom v641 high-speed, high-def video camera was there to document my shame at 1,200 FPS?
Let it be known that this edit is very kind to me; many more un-ninja'd fruits passed my elegant swing unscathed. We've spared you that tedium. But also let it be known that if you don't stick around this video until my shining moment at 55 second in, I'm coming after you with the pineapple-cutter.
Be sure to check the rest of the fruits of our labor with the Phantom for more super-slo-mo exploding, chopping, smashing, blending...and adorableness.
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The background, the joy on his face as he slices that pinapple, I just love the video, lol.
Might I suggest you focus your energy on cleaning up that dump you call a backyard?
Why is there so much trash? This video makes me happy I am a clean person. My yard is so clean compared to this :-) The background really ruined this video. What an awful place to part a miniature truck-car. Good grief. This left me unsettled. lolz
Awesome display of Ninja fruit-dicing, little Grasshopper!
@Varsity: Perhaps there's so much trash, because the guy is busy with creative activities -- activities which tend to be a bit messy. Why not try posting a video of your neat clean back yard, and see how many hits you get?
um he missed and wow what a mess did u try to find the dumbest looking person to do this and the nasty back yard.
I hate pineapples too!
They are the devil seed!
Have ever accidently sat on one?
Oooch!
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Science sees no further than what it can sense, i.e. facts.
Religion sees beyond the senses, i.e. faith.
Open your mind and see!
Popsci has gotten quite unprofessional lately. Very few of their stories are original and they fail to find proper places to film their videos. Are they just low on money or have just plain failed at proper journalism. Not mention the fact that almost all of their "stories" come from outside news sources such as BBC and other major news networks.
Am I the only one that noticed that the pineapple was already cut in half before he even hit it? I mean if he did hit it in mid air, where's the spray from hitting the fruit itself?
Clearly was just some guy swinging a knife at already cut fruit.
heehee its 117 in length