Nov 17 2009Eye Candy: Beautiful Toshiba Commercial Floats Armchair To The Edge Of Space
To demonstrate how good the atmosphere looks on a Toshiba television, the company floated an armchair and camera up to 98,000-feet with a helium balloon. It's a really beautiful thing to watch, right up there with catfights at the bar. Gouge her eyes out!
Thanks to nicobbg, Deputy Dog, Melissa, pouncer24 and naas, who are all convinced the moon landing was faked as part of a governmental money-laundering scheme. I wouldn't be surprised.
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Reader Comments
1. killerabbit - November 17, 2009 12:27 PM
Where's Falcon? I swear he was around here earlier...
2. jumpin_j - November 17, 2009 12:28 PM
Now if only "Balloon Boy" was tied to that chair, THAT would have been beautiful.
3. Closet Nerd - November 17, 2009 12:28 PM
"You guys feel like your floating?!"
4. Closet Nerd - November 17, 2009 12:30 PM
Speaking of beautiful things in a bar..... one time, my buddy set the back of some dude's shirt on fire at the bar.... damn that thing caught on fire quickly.... one of the funniest things I've ever seen!!!! And we didn't even get kicked out of the bar.
5. naas - November 17, 2009 12:32 PM
@3 thanks to the tiny frosted leaves of this slightly purple-tinted flower in a small glass inner sphere, absolutely
6. Closet Nerd - November 17, 2009 12:36 PM
@5 You lucky, Lucky, LUCKY bastard!!!!
Be polite and pass to the righ..... Closet Nerd
7. naas - November 17, 2009 12:45 PM
@6 my arm is stretched as far down from the trophosphere as it can reach
8. george mcfly - November 17, 2009 12:46 PM
@3 only because of the drugs... not because of the illusion to viewing the chair from the outer most layer of the atmosphere
9. naas - November 17, 2009 12:49 PM
@8 http://bugehoobs.com/img/upload/cache/480x424_1609665530480751872d3b1.jpg
10. Skeletor - November 17, 2009 1:11 PM
@4 Did some one ask to push in your stool afterward?
11. Don - November 17, 2009 1:13 PM
OR... itsj ust all green-screen
12. I-Kill-Bambi's - November 17, 2009 1:23 PM
speaking of balloon boy I have a very important question..check it
http://www.kerrydean.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/balloon-boy-meme-raptor.jpg
13. Closet Nerd - November 17, 2009 1:23 PM
@10 No. I've HEARD that "Can I push in your stool?" is the #1 pick-up line in gay bars... but I see you already KNOW that.
14. Closet Nerd - November 17, 2009 1:24 PM
@7 Go Go Gadget Arm!!!!
15. Joel - November 17, 2009 1:26 PM
If I hadn't seen the chair explode, I'd be wondering who was going to sue
from getting clobbered with a fall furniture.
16. gizmoduck - November 17, 2009 1:27 PM
GO GO GADGETDICK
17. Closet Nerd - November 17, 2009 1:32 PM
@16 Whipped that shit out, and ain't no doubt about it.
It hit the ground caused an earthquake and power outage.
18. jumpin_j - November 17, 2009 1:37 PM
My question is after you hear the balloon pop and the chair break, how were they still able to get the pictures?
19. Tigerh8r - November 17, 2009 1:54 PM
I think they left the best part of the video off, ... the descent!
20. blow - November 17, 2009 2:13 PM
wait so you can just launch a weather balloon with a camera and relay what it takes back to earth?! I'M SO DOING THIS.
21. DH - November 17, 2009 2:29 PM
@20 nah you gotta go find where the camera landed :D
lmao @ the chair breaking up
22. Mike - November 17, 2009 3:13 PM
Just as it was getting good.
23. jumpin_j - November 17, 2009 10:01 PM
If anyone wants to see the video on how they made that:
http://creativity-online.com/work/toshiba-space-chair-the-making-of/17972
24. wha??? - November 18, 2009 12:28 AM
fisics nerds, tell me how come the chair explodes at the end??
25. MaxMouseDLL - November 18, 2009 6:53 AM
The chair breaks apart at the end due to extreme atmospheric conditions (pressure). Watch the video at 23's link.
26. skeletor - November 18, 2009 12:05 PM
@13 wow, some one is a little touchy...closetnerd isn't the only thing in the closet obviously...