Watching watermelons and sheets of plywood meet their demise at the hands of a twisted slingshot creation is entertaining. But Joerg Sprave’s latest creation, a custom crossbow bolt that’s been modified to deliver a lethal dose of poison, is a little disheartening since it was created for killing, not just smashin’ stuff. More »
James Bond has quite the arsenal of high-tech gadgets, plenty of which would be awesome if they were real. And though slingshot master Joerg Sprave may not make the highest tech weapons, I’m sure Bond could find a way to make use of this silent but deadly slingshot spy-pistol. More »
People, why do you hide weapons when you fly. You’re just asking for trouble! And seriously, is there a need to wrap knives in foil and then hide it in a bottle of foot powder? Or put a knife inside lipstick? Here are the weapons the TSA found in the weirdest places. More »
Wars and battles are being fought using increasingly cutting edge technology. In the future, the world may be so dependent on electronics – our soldiers might even be robots – that should a group’s systems and devices fail it might as well wave a white flag. Which is why Boeing, the US Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon Ktech are working on a missile that’s out to kill electronics, not organics.
The missile is called Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project or CHAMP. I think we can all agree that the acronym is not forced and that it is not confusing at all that the missile is also a missile project. But on to the good stuff. The missile is unlike conventional missiles not just because of its intended target but also in the fact that it just needs to fly over its targets as opposed to crashing into them. The CHAMP emits high-powered microwave pulses to do its job.
I love how one computer was so knocked out it spat out the disc in its optical drive. For their next test Boeing should make CHAMP fly over thousands of s’mores or popcorns and see if it can cook them.
Forget bombs or the robopocalypse. In our minds, the most fearsome weapon is the one that disables our gadgets. That’s what makes Boeing’s newly tested Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) scarier than most projectiles. The missile bombards targets underneath with microwaves that shut down computers, power systems and just about anything electrical in their path. Thankfully, CHAMP’s invisible payload arrives in discrete bursts and arguably makes it the world’s most advanced (and likely expensive) non-lethal weapon: the prototype can target multiple individual buildings without ever having to detonate and hurt someone. Boeing is still developing CHAMP in a multi-year program and doesn’t have guarantees that it will become military ordnance, which gives us enough time to accept that saving lives is far, far more important than the risk we’ll have to stop fiddling with our technology.
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Try as you might to satiate that mischievous little voice inside you by watching Joerg Sprave’s crazy slingshot creations, deep down you know it just isn’t enough. So as long as you’re not using it for random acts of violence, what’s the harm in having a little fun with this beautiful GloveShot slingshot? More »
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Normally, if you’re thinking about what kind of weapons you can find in the kitchen, you immediately think of the knives. It turns out ladles can be formidable too. At least, they can be when they’re also guns. More »
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Link may have headed out alone for most of his adventures, but he always had his trusty weapons by his side. deviantART member James aka BLUEamnesiac made a huge wallpaper that contains all of the canonical swords, grouped according to the game that they appear in:
The original image has a 3,200 x 2,000 resolution. I chopped some of its parts down so we can appreciate James’ art a bit better. Hardcore fans of the series will see that James slightly tweaked the art of some of the swords, particularly the less ornate ones.
Head to deviantART to see the full size of the wallpaper. And yes, James also compiled all of Link’s shields.
[via Geekologie]
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