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Having trouble waking up because you are more or less immune to alarm clocks these days, not to mention the almighty snooze button working in your favor as it causes you to prolong your sleep until you are perpetually late for work? Well, there is some home with the £14.99 NERF Shoot to Snooze LCD Alarm Clock, as it will help you keep your eyes open the moment it rings to signal that it is time for you to roll out of bed and get that lazy bum off to work.

How so, you ask? Well, the alarm clock itself doubles up as an electronic Nerf target game, and the green LCD backlight will turn on whenever the alarm rings, or when the clock is tapped. To keep it quiet, you will need to have your very own Nerf gun in the first place to fire at it, where hitting the target squarely would send the NERF Shoot to Snooze LCD Alarm Clock back to snooze mode. It will be powered by a quartet of triple A batteries if you are interested in bringing this puppy home.

[ NERF Shoot to Snooze LCD Alarm Clock copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Billed as the highest capacity Nerf gun ever created, the new N-Strike Elite Hail-Fire Blaster can hold eight eighteen shot clips, putting 144 darts at your disposal between reloads. And with a firing capacity of up to six shots per second, you’ve just guaranteed yourself office supremacy. More »

Last night I went to a magical party. There was food, which is always good, and booze, better still, but neither of these integral ingredients played a part in the magic. Nerf’s new N-Strike Elite line of dart blasters did.

The company unveiled the latest in their line of N-Strike blasters, the farthest-shooting toy guns in the company’s entire product portfolio, boasting a 75-foot trajectory. The Elite line includes three separate blasters, the Hail-Fire, the Rampage, and the Retaliator (by the way, is it just me, or are these super angry names?).

We should just start with the Hail-Fire, since it’s the bad mamma jamma of the trio. It features a revolving clip carousel fitting up to eight clips of any size, allowing it to hold up to 144 darts. Of course, it only comes with 24 darts, but you can certainly purchase more if you hate reloading as much as I (or this kid) do. The Hail-Fire can shoot darts up to 75 feet, thanks to a battery-powered motor. This one goes for $39.99 and will be available on September 9.

The Rampage also brings a new form-factor to the game, with a 25-dart drum that attaches to the side of the barrel. Rampagers can reload and fire as usual, or hold the trigger and continuously reload for a more rapid-fire approach. It doesn’t quite shoot as far as the Hail-Fire, nor is it as threatening in appearance, but it does win points for being noticeably lighter and more agile in the field. The Rampage is available on August 1 for $32.99.

The Retaliator is a sheep that can be dressed in wolves’ clothing. It appears small without the attachable stock, barrel, and drop-down handle locked and in place, but it shoots just as far as the Hail-Fire in any one of its potential configurations. Unfortunately, the little guy only comes with 12 darts, so you’ll almost certainly need to buy an extra pack, but the good news is that the Retaliator is the cheapest of the bunch at $26.99, also available August 1.

You can kindly thank John Biggs for the video above demoing the Retaliator, and Milla for picking up darts that weren’t in the street.