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So I’ve made no attempt to hide my excitement about this bottle. The boys at Hydro Flask gave me this 18-ounce, narrow-mouth bottle at Outdoor Retailers last month, and I’ve carried it around like a Precious ever since.

I love it so much (don’t roll your eyes) that I feel it deserves some kind of cornball haiku:

Oh so cold, you’re hot//Double-wall and stainless steel//Theft by cube-mate, RAWR

No one has actually taken mine yet, mostly because they’d have to pry it from my not-so-cold-because-the-bottle-is-so-well-insulated hands.

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One Meeelion frames-per-second. That’s a great way to watch bullets meeting steel, glass and gelatin.

My favorite scenes are around 1:20 where you get to see a the progression of damage as bullets hit plates at different angles and 2:01 where a bullet is disrupted mid-flight by a BB. The results are a little surprising.

Thanks Kurzzeit via Matrece via Gizmodo.

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