Shutter and aperture in slow motion

Water Droplets Bouncing on a Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array

Superhydrophobicity @ wiki

Lightning captured at 9000fps

Nuclear power plant wall test

We've already seen that nuclear casks used in transport are virtually indestructible. Good nuclear power plants are also safe.

Better quality extended version of only the crash from different angles here.

Golf Ball Slow Motion

Old car vs new car

Phallus Slow Motion

"The champion phallus from this Meller’s duck is a long, spiraling tentacle. Some ducks grow phalluses as long as their entire body. In the fall, the genitalia will disappear, only to reappear next spring.

The anatomy of ducks is especially bizarre considering that 97 percent of all bird species have no phallus at all. Most male birds just deliver their sperm through an opening. Dr. Brennan is investigating how this sexual wonder of the world came to be."

The Slingjaw Wrasse

How a drop splashes in water

Ultimate Slow Motion Bullet Video

The Shimadzu HPV-1 High Speed camera offers up to one million frames per second. It maintains excellent 312 x 260-pixel resolution at all recording speeds to permit detailed analysis of high-speed phenomena.

This is what it can do:

This video is long, but amazing. it show different bullets hitting different targets and even projectiles hitting bullets in mid flight.

Super Slow Motion Exploding Building

You can actually see the high speed detcord firing. Also, see a bus exploding in super slow motion.

Nice Anti-Gun Ad

Awesome Time Slice Commercial

An awesome commercial making use of the time slice or frozen moment effect. It's a commercial for the silly Philips 21:9 LCD TV. Okay, you don't have black bars in widescreen movies with that TV, but you do have black bars on the side with any video that is less than 21:9 ratio.

Slow Motion HD Surfer

Like only the BBC can do it:

1000 FPS SprintCam v3 Showreel

This is a showreel for the SprintCam V3 high speed HD camera. I recommend clicking on HD on the video embed.

The red jello at the end really seems to defy gravity.

Soap Bubble Pops @ 10.000 FPS

How To Be A Bat [Life in Motion]

A really interesting article on the movement of bats and the research that's going on. It also features a lot of slow motion video of bats in motion.

The problem with looking to bats for inspiration is that scientists are only starting to figure out bat aerodynamics. What’s really challenging to figure out, however, is the difference between the aerodynamics of birds and bats. Riskin and Swartz use lots of tools to find the answer. They paint bright dots on bats and then film the animals as they fly in wind tunnels. The biologists can then use computers to create models of the bat wings and calculate the speed and direction of each dot at each instant of flight. They can spray mist into a tunnel and then film the swirls the bats leave in their wake. From this data on real bats, bat researchers can then test out simulations on computers to see if they produce the same forces and swirls of air as they see in their wind tunnels. Full article...

Slow Motion Ice Cream Fight!

Music is 'I Scream' by DJ Goodwill (Ministry of Sound)

Railgun on track for 2012 deployment trials on US warships

Yes, it's not science fiction anymore. Railguns are being succefully tested. Recent tests have shot a 3,2kg projectile at mach 7, with an acceleration of 20.000g. A railgun is a purely electrical gun that magnetically accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails (wiki).

Another more energetic test video. Railguns have a few advantages. The impact of the round relies purely on kinetic energy, so there is no explosion and thus less collateral damage. The ship doesn't have to carry explosives anymore, so there no danger of the ammunition room blowing up during combat. The railgun under development also has a planned range of 200 miles compared to 13 miles for the typical navy artillery. Read more... ESA has also studied the use of railguns to launch cargo into space.

People Punched in Slow Motion

1000 FPS