Bomb Balloon

So, the most important question of our generation; can you blow up a firecracker inside a balloon using a high powered laser without inadvertently popping said balloon? Place your bets now!

People are awesome. Exetreme sports people are even more so. here's a run-down of all the noteworthy acts of awesome from 2012, fromnotable video releases to the world's first 1080 air from a 12 year old.

The fact that this guy’s managed to consume 30 hits of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and is not a raving, gibbering mad fiend is miraculous. It's like surviving an atomic bomb with only a grazed knee.

If you’ve spent your entire teenage years getting ripped to the eyeballs on MDMA powder in Ibiza while mainlining whiskey into your ears, then this sort of behaviour just goes with the territory really!

I always wanted explosions like this to be part of my home-made special effects attempts when I was a kid, but failed! However, this is more than close enough. This one's for you, 10-year old Me.

During the UCI Track Cycling World Championship, Julie Leth wipes out and takes four other cyclists with her, snapping American Shelley Evan's bike in half as she flips over her handlebars. FAIL Awesomeness!

The kid's mom jinxes his trampoline jump, which sends him flying through the net. Until today, I didn't even know trampoline was a sport where it was possible to get a hole-in-one.

Quadrotors are fricken awesome. It's like one of Newton's laws or something. How could they be more awesome I hear you ask? Well, if they could balance stuff between their spinning blades and pass it to each other mid-air!

Attempting the impossible? One man, one jar. Of Nutella. Will he give up? Will he get type 2 diabeetus? Watch & see. I was pretty sure he was gonna hurl around the 1 minute mark, , but he has real passion & commitment.

Those Brits take their tea seriously. So seriously in fact that if you dare to make it incorrectly you are in danger of getting shot. Well, maybe not, but they will be bloody cross with you.

It's Back To The Future with the least subtle in-jokes and nods to the movies you'll ever hear, but admit it. You still kinda want a pair of these don't you? Well there's only 1500 in the world auctioning for $3.5k to $10k.