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, ...

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 ...

Just as there’s more than one way to skin the proverbial cat, there’s also more than one way to enjoy some nice, satisfying hydraulic crushing. One of those ways is with a thermal camera, which gives ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A thrilling shot of a hydraulic press smashing several bars of soap into powdery fragments. The contrast of the smooth soap against the raw power of industrial machinery creates a satisfying visual ...

The brilliant hydraulic-press-having mind behind the Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube has roared back into action over the past couple of weeks, crushing things left and right and left again. But in ...

The Hydraulic Press Channel, which has crushed everything from iPhones to golf balls, will demolish just about anything with its incredibly powerful metal crusherator. But while most of its victims ...

A new video is the perfect revenge watch for anyone who has ever stepped on a LEGO, shrieked in pain and started to hop up and down on one foot, only to step on another LEGO. The latest installment ...

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 ...