OMG! It’s the “Will It Blend?” Guy!
Posted by Stephen on
January 14, 2009
Tom Dickson of Blendtec has made quite the name for himself and for his company by blending all sorts of things. From iPhones to Chuck Norris, there doesn’t seem to be anything left for him to throw into these crazy powerful and super loud blenders. I met up with Tom at the Lunch@Pieros press event across the street from the LVCC during CES 2009 to ask him a couple questions about blending stuff…
After hearing that Kelly can easily throw my 80 kg frame over her head and that she was on track to compete at the 2012 Olympics for Olympic Weightlifting for Canada, Tom immediately hooked us up with a Blendtec Blender which should be arriving soon. A powerful little female Olympic Weightlifter vs the world’s most powerful blender. Now there’s something that blends well together. I can’t wait to have this thing in the house!
Some of the things he blended at this event included…
A Tape Measure which put up a really good fight…
A few cellphones including the legendary Nokia 5190 which went down without much complaining…
Michael Kwan tried to blend too, but we all know that he doesn’t do so well with things with motors. He seemed to take the task very seriously though. Why so serious Michael? More pictures after the jump.
That’s awesome that he even blends cars!
Sometime I want to blend my dog because he tears things up all the time… No not really, but you get the picture.
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It was very cool meeting him in person, even more than spotting Kid Rock in person.
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Yeah. That weird dude in the fur coat calling him Bobby totally threw me off. He’s one short mofo.
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Is that really a blender… Or a Garbage Disposal in disguise?!Tell Kelly to research a Man named Jack LaLane, An old time serious fitness Cat, That was into blending and juicing way before it was popular….. I remember watching him swim from the mainland out to the old Alcatraz prison one time to celebrate his birthday…
That’s awesome that Michael blended a rake handle. Too bad there wasn’t a video clip of that, cause that would’ve been cool.
I liked iphone blending. Everybody was waiting for first examples and the first day he got one he blended it. Must be a funny guy.
Do you have contact with Tom? Maybe we could exchange our jobs
I wonder if I first saw the blendtec videos here? Almost as good a time waster as Ask a Ninja. I wonder why watching things get blended is so interesting.
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The guys so Cool =) just a few days I was watching on discovery channel where they blend high pressure lighters it was totally awesome =D
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This strikes me as the kind of activity that will only end up in some sortof eye injury. The blender is not designed to blend ridiculous things.
God damn! Now if someone says “what did you try to blend? a rock?”, you can say “sure did!”
-Mike
Blending cell phones? cars? That is just crazy! Whatever for!
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Ok, this is kewl! I’ve always wanted to blend the living hell outta something. A blending rampage if you will. Of course I became completely enamored with Blending when it came down to shopping for new ones because we kept breaking the old ones making margaritas on the weekend. NUTZ!
So seeing these pictures makes me want to blend like there’s no tomorrow.
So far, most of the answers are “Yes, It will blend”