by Kathi Leiden | Apr 21, 2016 | Helium, Helium Stunts
Artist Noëmi Lakmaier is going to spend two entire days of her life hanging in the sky, held up by nothing but helium balloons — 20,000 helium balloons. Hanging for days She’s calling her upcoming installation “Cherophobia,” which is the term for a psychological...
by Kathi Leiden | Apr 15, 2016 | Helium, Helium Uses
Of all the things we’ve seen helium balloons used for, drawing is a new one. If you’ve never seen a balloon draw (and you haven’t), check this out. It looks like an old underwater mine from WW2, but it floats in air instead of water and its purpose...
by Kathi Leiden | Apr 13, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Stunts, Helium Uses
Helium balloons can actually be used for a lot of wild purposes. We’ve put together the 15 craziest uses for helium balloons that we could find. 1. Recording alien sounds Part of a NASA-backed graduate student project, a high-altitude helium balloon was...
by Kathi Leiden | Apr 8, 2016 | Helium, Helium Science
Imagine a world where your pizza or package is slurped up and delivered to you by a big, flying helium drone. Or don’t — just watch it in action. Inspired by nature Festo is a worldwide company that spends its days trying to innovate and improve the...
by Kathi Leiden | Mar 17, 2016 | Helium, Helium News, Helium Science
NASA has been working on a technology called a “super pressure balloon” that they plan to use to double the helium balloon flight duration world record. OK, it’s NASA. They’re obviously not out just to break records. Super pressure helium balloon program...
