Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

When you fire up a new video from the Hydraulic Press Channel, you don’t watch to see if the press can crush a watermelon or cameras or a toilet, but how it will crush these things. The crushing will ...

It seems like everything possible has been crushed in a hydraulic press already, but from time to time, something comes along that raises the bar for good crushing. I don't know who wakes up in the ...

So reads the YouTube description of this hot new viral sensation. Weekly footage depicting heavy-duty machinery crushing objects as innocuous as an Easter basket and finicky as hockey pucks have ...

There are lots of ways to unwind. You can go on a walk, call a friend or read a book. But sometimes it rains, friends are busy or your book is boring. What then? I have a suggestion: watch random, ...

An emerging YouTube star loves to crush things with a hydraulic press, and people can't seem to get enough of his videos. He's not the only game in town with a hydraulic press though, and now other ...

Although all of us have thrown out plenty of random household stuff over our lifetimes, very few of us have used an industrial-scale hydraulic press to crush said stuff into dust. An unfortunate fact ...

Can a hydraulic press crush adamantium? Find out in a bizarre Logan promo! The X-Men franchise has seen a lot of strange crossovers over the years, but a new video released today by the Hydraulic ...

HELSINKI, Finland, March 22 (UPI) --A European man tested the strength of a hockey puck by attempting to crush it with a hydraulic press. YouTube user Hydraulic Press Channel set out to see if a ...

There are plenty of uses for modern technology. Just about everything is designed with a practical use in mind, but because this is the internet, we thumb our noses at stuff like practical and instead ...

The first thing you see is a black and white montage accompanied by an infectious heavy metal soundtrack. A button is pushed, a lever pulled, a needle jumps within a pressure gauge. Then comes a male ...