I heard about Orchestrating Mixed-Media Art with Mentos on NPR's All Things Considered earlier this week.
Then I got a link to EepyBird.com - Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment in an email. EepyBird has some cool Quicktime video of the performance of the Diet Coke/Mentos fountain.
How do you make such a fountain?
You can find out at EepyBird.com.
It's not quite as simple as dropping a mentos into a diet coke (almost that simple but not quite). It involves drilling through mentos, stringing them together to make a cartridge, and suspending them just above the soda, with a 1/4 inch hole drilled in the bottle cap - they recommend anyone under 35 get help from an adult.
You can find some videos of the Diet Coke and Mentos reaction at Google Video (none of them as cool as the one at EepyBird though).
