Who is EepyBird?
Fritz and Stephen are the mad scientists behind EepyBird.com. Fritz, the short, bearded guy, is also a professional juggler. Stephen, the tall, bald guy, is also a lawyer. Both these skills have proven useful in managing EepyBird insanity!
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Stephen Voltz
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Where can I see you perform live?
Join our e-mail list, and we’ll keep you posted on when we’re doing live Diet Coke & Mentos performances – it’s awesome to see it in person! For information on booking an EepyBird performance check out our EepyLive page.
What’s an EepyBird?
First off, let’s get one thing straight. It’s EepyBird. That’s Eeeeeeeeepy. Rhymes with weepy. Not Eppy, as in preppy. It’s eepy, like sleepy. And if we told you what it was, we’d have to kill you. Or ask a ninja to kill you. We will reveal the secret origin of the EepyBird someday when the relevant documents have been declassified.
What are you working on next at EepyLabs?
We’re hard at work on a bunch of super-secret new projects, some of them involving Diet Coke and Mentos, and some that are even stranger! Subscribe to our e-mail list and we’ll keep you posted on all the latest developments.
How did you discover Diet Coke & Mentos?
The basic Diet Coke & Mentos geyser has been around for years, and we first heard about it from a friend of ours back in 2005. Like everyone else, we tried it in our backyard and thought it was awesome. Then we thought, “How far can we take this?” We never imagined it would become a full-time job!
How does Diet Coke & Mentos work?
It’s mostly due to a process called nucleation, where the carbon dioxide in the soda is attracted to the Mentos (they are awfully cute). That creates so much pressure that the soda goes flying. We built nozzles that make the opening smaller and that makes the geyser go higher.
How can I do this at home?
This is a great thing to try yourself – if you’re careful. Here’s how. Make sure you wear your goggles and lab coats, so that you are not only protected, you also look cool as you run away from the flying soda.
Why do you use Diet Coke & Mentos?
We’ve tested a gazillion different combinations of soda and candies. Lots of stuff works - even dropping pennies into Moxie gives you a small geyser. But we’ve found that Diet Coke & Mentos seems to make the biggest geysers.
Why do you use diet soda?
Diet tends to go a bit higher than regular soda, because it often has more carbonation and artificial sweeteners can help make the reaction a little bigger. Most importantly, diet soda isn’t sugary and sticky. Every time we set off a big geyser display, we get soaked to the skin, so it’s nice not to get covered in sugary goo.
What happens if you drink soda & then eat Mentos?
Well, a lot of the fizz goes away as you drink. Then when bubbles are released in your stomach, your stomach can expand a bit, and it also has ways of, umm, releasing excess gas. The Mythbusters showed that your stomach won’t explode, but it still wouldn’t be a lot of fun. Do not, repeat, do not be stupid and test the limits of your stomach. Don't even think about it.
What’s the biggest geyser display you’ve ever done?
We did 250 bottles all by ourselves in the Domino Effect - Experiment #214. We also helped set an official Guinness World Record in Holland: 851 geysers! We beat that record in April 2008, with a new world record of 1,360 bottles in Lueven, Belgium!
How many Mentos and bottles of Diet Coke have you been through?
Since January of 2006, we’ve been through about 4,000 bottles of Diet Coke and over 24,000 Mentos. That’s a lot. And that’s why we’re really glad that both Coke and Mentos have been nice enough to help us out and supply us with materials for our new experiments.
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