Aquaglove

Step 5: The Optional Dachshund step

Aquagloves can get very large. They shimmy and wobble as the water moves about. This seems to entertain our Dachshund Zak as much as it does us. First he was confused by it, then he attacked it.

Watch him go!

The glove is under massive pressure and stretched to it's limit. All the elastic energy is released when Zak bites it, the rubber retracts around the mass of water too fast to see.
The result is a perfect Aquaglove shaped blob of water in mid air, amazingly captured at just 15 fps.
See the intro step for a slowed down video of the burst, and below for individual freeze frames.

An alternative glove option - Purple Nitrile Laboratory glove

Comments

[vincent7520]

You could use a condom instead of a glove.

I guess it would be the same amount of wasted water, but what could you expect from a comment from France ?…

:D

[bpfh]

Just because I'm in France does not mean that I'm French ;-)

[vincent7520]

true ! … but some can expect you get some elementary notions … 

:D :D

[Super_Nerd]

Does this work with a corgi?

[angelabchua]

HAHAHHAHHA EXCELLENT question!

[stupidstickanimations]

Should I have a swedish vallhund ( very similar to corgi's ) and he enjoys to play with the aquaglove ( although he doesnt bite he jumps on it )

[Marinus84]

Maybe it's already said, but it's an awfull waste of water.

[kkibler]

Water is never truly wasted. It will either evaporate into the sky, or go down a pipe into a water treatment plant which further goes to other places for them to use.

[DevilDogPratt]

its not wasting, its recycling back into the ground =D

[Earths_hope]

Who cares?

[titanium_geek]

well, depends on where you live. Melbourne water storage levels: 33.7 % full http://melbournewater.com.au/content/water_storages/water_report/water_report.asp?bhcp=1 So they've asked us to try and use 155 litres of water only per day: http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/saving/target155 how much does one of these hold? fun, but water is, you know, essential to survival. :)

[kkibler]

You COULD try to condense the water vapor in the air, or just collect rain, if it ever does. Then you boil the stuff, and it's even good to drink!

[Marinus84]

Water is a somewhat necessity in a lot of parts of the world. I live in the Netherlands, a lot of water, clean too, but still we manage to keep usage down.

[bart416]

Just use rain water. The only real loss is the electricity you'll need for the pump.

[bpfh]

Solar panels, old car batteries, charge regulator and 12v pump for the win :)

[tincanz]

What about creating those things? I dont think they grow on trees... but I suppose if every atom of them is completely recycleable and the reactants and by-products are fully integrated natural parts of the world it is okay.

[bpfh]

Just being pedantic, If you think about it, everything on this planet is natural ;-)

The only way you are going to do anything on this planet that will have no negative footprint on anything is to live in a cave, grow veggies, hunt animals with a spear, never wear clothes, walk everywhere all the time and never use fire... Not really possible in this day and age!!!

Lead, silicon and copper comes from the ground, sulphuric acid is naturally synthesized volcanoes, latex rubber comes from trees and water is never lost, only transported to differnet places before sinking back to the water table, running back to the sea, then eventuelly gets evaporated and falls back to earth again restarting the water cycle.

No you don"t have to do all this to make an aqua glove, but then again, you don't have to have a swimming pool or have a computer either, both waste energy for no physical gain in the end, but the right to have fun is written in the constitution, and even Abraham Lincoln told the population to be excellent to each other and to party on!

[tincanz]

Ok, if you insist, but I wonder if the materials that are used for the solar panels, batteries, charge regulator, and pump are just going to stay in their current states until someone comes along and seperates each into groups or identical molecules and breaks down or reassembles them into something different in a nuclear reactor. That seems like the only way to perfectly recycle things.

[bpfh]

True, but if they already exist and you can get your hands on them easily enough, go for it :)

[tincanz]

ok, I conceed.

[mechaninja]

Relevance just went up in smoke.

[Marinus84]

That just means you are unable to relate or unable to comprehend the relevance.

I think your comment actually lacks a bit of relevance, it's 'easy' to say something totally inconstructive.

[bart416]

There you go, 0 use of electricity of the grid. It's now environmentally friendly to make aquagloves!

[kristylynn84]

he's just watering the grass. and his dog... :)

[arpoky]

^Like^

[eranox]

^Amicably agree. :)^

[stevenh429]

WEINAH DAWG! :)

[evgon]

This is one of my favorite things to do in the summer. LOL Me and a few of my friends came up with a game if u wanna try. Once its FULLY inflated, each person finds a hand full of rocks and hands it to another player(as to keep someone from picking all small rocks), then each person takes turns throwing rocks at it till it pops. The person who pops it loses. Good fun :D

[Techdojo]

What about a BB gun (or Air Pistol), wait for someone to get close enough to have a look and them BLAMM! (or should that be SPLAT!) 8-) Can you keep the glove filled for a long time if you turn the tap off once fully inflated ?

[tz1_1zt]

We've been tempted to leave an aquaglove inflated, but they always end up being burst. I suppose if it was made using a sealing hosepipe connector, the hose could be disconnected leaving just the glove. Inflating an aquaglove indoors would be a very nasty practical joke to play. I've no idea how to move 100 kg of quivering water without flooding a room. I don't advise anybody try that :)

[ilikebombs]

that would be fun. or you could just heave it at someone too!!

[tanmanknex]

off the top of the empire state building!!!

[Earths_hope]

LOLOLOL!

[TheMadScientist]

Am I the only one who was brave enough to just go up and punch it as hard as I could? you get this cool ripple effect before the thing pops

[tz1_1zt]

:) When you don't have a Dachshund, fisty-cuffs is a perfectly way to tackle the glove. Taunt the glove is one of the three Aquaglove Games listed in step4.
The ripples you describe would look great on a slow motion video!

[raja681]

another fun game to play is throw blunt/sharp objects at the aquaglove

[cahethel]

Now that was a refreshing scare

[pingkam]

Funny dog

[argowen]

Man!!! Lol this is a great instructable and what makes it better are the comments my sides are finally starting to not hurt as I was laughing for ages especially Bright Shadow's comment. I will have to give this a go sometime pure genius.

[petrino]

this would make an excelent trap... i could suspent this somewhere...have someone walk under it... and then.... i dunno... small c4 charge or sumthin? SPLOSH! mohahaha