by Kathi Leiden | Apr 28, 2016 | Helium, Helium News
May 4, 2016 will make or break the balloon industry and I need you to take action, otherwise it will become a crime to sell foil balloons in California. UPDATE: The California balloon ban bill, AB 2709 has been postponed so that it can be studied for its fiscal...
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 19, 2016 | Helium
It took guts to invent the first balloon animals—literally! The very first weren’t rubber, latex, or mylar, they were made of intestines! Long before Michael Faraday laid the groundwork for today’s modern versions back in 1824, balloons were commonly made...
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...