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  • TV-PG
  • Discovery
  • Dec 26, 2007
  • 44 m
  • TV-PG
  • Discovery
  • Dec 26, 2007
  • 44 m
Smash Lab

Summary Smash Lab features a team of skilled engineers as they take on everyday technology and apply it in fun new ways. For example, would the material used in a bulletproof Kevlar vest be able to protect an airliner from bombs? The Smash Lab team will test it and see!

Directed By: Damon Zwicker

  • TV-PG
  • Discovery
  • Dec 26, 2007
  • 44 m
  • TV-PG
  • Discovery
  • Dec 26, 2007
  • 44 m
Smash Lab
S1 • Episode 1
Blast Proof Building
Air Date: Dec 26, 2007
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Summary Smash Lab features a team of skilled engineers as they take on everyday technology and apply it in fun new ways. For example, would the material used in a bulletproof Kevlar vest be able to protect an airliner from bombs? The Smash Lab team will test it and see!

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Episode 1 • Dec 26, 2007 • 44 m
Blast Proof Building
Designers and engineers face an almost impossible challenge -- to use truck bed liner paint, normally used to protect vehicles from scratches and knocks, to protect an entire building from a massive explosion.
Episode 2 • Jan 16, 2008 • 43 m
Crash Absorbing Concrete
Episode 3 • Jan 23, 2008 • 43 m
Hurricane Proof House
The Smash Lab teams tests a special type of carbon fiber used to reinforce tunnels to see if it can protect a home from destructive hurricanes.
Episode 4 • Jan 30, 2008 • 42 m
Train Crash
Can an airbag on the front of a train protect the occupants of a car it collides with? The Smash Lab team intends to find out and will also find out if a train crash can get any worse.
Episode 5 • Feb 6, 2008 • 44 m
Earthquake Proof House
The Smash Lab team thinks carbon fiber fabric can be used to hurricane proof a house. That includes damage from wind and flying debris. Their control tests don't fair well because they're looking to handle a category 5.
Episode 6 • Feb 13, 2008 • 44 m
High Rise Escape
The Smash Lab team tries to devise a fire escape for skyscrapers using nothing more than magnetism.
Episode 7 • Feb 20, 2008 • 43 m
Forest Fire
Episode 8 • Mar 5, 2008 • 44 m
Runaway Trailer
Episode 9 • Mar 11, 2008 • 44 m
Bomb Proof Plane
Smash Lab evaluates a high tech bubble wrap filled with fire retardant to see if it can protect a plane in flight from an on-board bomb. Successful or not it takes a lot of explosions to test the theory.
Episode 10 • Mar 12, 2008 • 43 m
Fluidized Sand
Episode 11 • Mar 19, 2008 • 43 m
Long Range Life Boat
Episode 12 • Mar 26, 2008 • 44 m
Co2 Cop Car
Episode 13 • Apr 2, 2008 • 44 m
Boat Ejector Seat
The team takes to the water in this episode -- with parachutes! They will try to engineer a system that not only deploys fast enough to eject someone from an out of control boat - but also slows them down enough to safely hit the water.

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