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Tech NewsNerf’s Finally Made the Action Cam Removable on its Hit-Recording Blaster
Back in early 2014, Nerf introduced its first blaster with an integrated video camera—the N-Strike Elite Cam ECS-12 Blaster—for recording your attacks on unsuspecting victims. Two years later we now have a follow-up with the N-Strike Modulus Battlescout ICS-10 that finally makes the camera removable. If your kid has been begging for a GoPro, but … Continued
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Nerf’s New Brainsaw Blaster Includes a Spinning Foam Chainsaw
When the zombie apocalypse finally hits, blasters alone won’t be enough to keep the brain-hungry hordes at bay. So with its new Zombie Strike Brainsaw Blaster, Nerf has managed to incorporate a working chainsaw with a kid-safe foam blade. Chainsaw blasters have long been a staple of the post-apocalyptic landscape, but in order to be … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidIs Titanium Basically Bulletproof?
Titanium is strong and super light and has a cool name but is it bulletproof? Demolition Ranch tries to puncture a hole in a 1 1/4-inch thick titanium plate by shooting different caliber bullets and guns at it and the results are pretty impressive. The titanium plate can withstand little pellet guns all the way … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidVideo Shows How a Bullet Fired Underwater Doesn’t Shoot That Far
No one should ever have to face the other end of a gun barrel but if you manage to find yourself in such a situation, let’s all hope that it’s underwater. Here’s our favorite physicist Andreas Wahl proving how the velocity of a bullet slows down like crazy when it’s fired underwater with a lovely … Continued
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The Crazy Weapons TSA Confiscated In 2015: It Gets Worse Every Year
Are you traveling anytime soon? Well, rather than sneering at the mere sight of a TSA agent, maybe you should be stopping to give them a hug—because there’s a good chance that they’ve seen some crazy shit. In its annual report, the TSA announced that it found 2,653 guns stowed in carry-on bags last year. … Continued
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What’s the Most Powerful Weapon in Sci-Fi History?
What’s the most powerful weapon in the sci-fi universe? How does a lightsaber in Star Wars compare to the energy sword of Halo? What about a Death Star vs Dr. Who’s reality bomb? And how do they match up with a real life nuclear bomb? Foundation Digital made this infographic for Fat Wallet detailing the … Continued
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A Variable-Velocity Gun Can Shoot Just Slow Enough to (Hopefully) Not Kill People
Less-than-lethal weapons like rubber bullets and bean-bag rounds are a bad compromise, using a projectile that’s too slow to kill, and too big and heavy for real accuracy. A bullet that can change its velocity based on how far it has to travel would be a good solution, even if it looks weird as hell. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhat Happens When You Shoot a .50 Cal Right Down the Barrel of a Shotgun
I’ve never wondered this but I’m happy to see it actually happen in real life: what happens if a .50 call shot a bullet that went right through a barrel of shotgun barrel? If you aim it perfectly does it just go right through the opposite direction? Could you maybe even use the shotgun after? … Continued
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Tech NewsObama Just Proposed Creating a ‘Find My iPhone’ for Stolen Firearms
President Obama announced a new executive order to stop gun violence in the US, with several new policies including a national registry for gun vendors. But he also called for gunmakers to “update firearms technology,” which would include not only biometric locks but a new idea to track guns with an app. “If there’s an … Continued
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Is It OK to Shoot Down Your Neighbor’s Drone?
Before you decide to shoot that drone out of your backyard, there are a few important things you need to know. First of all, damaging any flying robot is a federal crime. It doesn’t matter if it’s crashing your pool party or watching you in your skivvies through the skylight in your master bath. “In … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhat happens when you stuff a shotgun with a carrot like Bugs Bunny and then shoot it?
If you were a child once upon a time, you may have remembered Bugs Bunny cleverly stuffing Elmer Fudd’s shotgun with a carrot so that when Fudd fired his shotgun, it would explode in his face. But would that actually happen if you did that in real life? Demolition Ranch, answerer of life’s questions about … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch different caliber bullets hit a bowling ball
Bowling balls are strong and dense and basically indestructible. Well, that’s until you start hitting them with different caliber bullets just to see what will happen. A .22 caliber bullet from a pistol barely even dents the bowling ball while a .50 BMG incendiary round impossibly shreds it in half. Demolition Ranch fired so many … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch the first aerial test of the F-35’s gatling gun
Woo, boy. Here’s video showing Lockheed Martin conducting the first aerial test for the F-35’s gatling gun. Called the GAU-22/A, the weapon can pop off 3,300 25mm rounds per minute. The gun fires so fast that your eyes might miss it. Even though the test was successful, the GAU-22/A won’t be combat ready until 2019 … Continued
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Google Data Says We’re Ready To Talk About Gun Control, But We Probably Won’t
The Wall Street Journal picked up a hope-inspiring dataset from Google showing a swift change in gun-related searching habits from before and after the San Bernardino shootings. It showed a massive spike for “gun control” searches (blue in the image above) related to “gun shop” searches (red). Yes, maybe we’re finally ready to get serious … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow much paper does it take to stop a 50 cal machine gun?
Reams of paper make for pretty good bullet proof material. It’s just layers and layers of protection! But what happens when it’s a 50 cal machine gun that’s shooting at paper? How many reams does it take to stop that ridiculously giant and powerful bullet? About 7! Which is like, 3500 sheets of paper. I’m … Continued
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Tech NewsHitler’s Supergun: The Nazi Plot to Destroy London (and Why It Failed)
The V-3 “supergun” was meant to win the war for Germany. In 1943, for the first time since World War II began, Hitler was on the back foot. Allied bombs were devastating German cities and the Fuhrer was rattled. His proposed V-3 cannon would be the biggest gun the world had seen. The V-3 was … Continued
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6 Ways to Make SciFi and Fantasy Weapons More Believable
Ever read a fantasy book or watched a science fiction movie and struggled to suspend your disbelief due to the total lack of reality in some make believe weapons? Here’s advice for people writing this stuff on how to get guns and lasers and bow and wands right. When it comes to real-world weapons in … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWhat it looks like when a ballistic gel body dummy gets shot up with bullets
Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle. That’s what it looks like from afar when a fully automatic glock starts shooting its bullets at the ballistic gel dummy. And it’s almost funny how the gel moves! But then you look a little closer and see the true damage of the gun and it’s a whole lot scarier. The bullets … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidVideo: The incredible 18 month process of making a shotgun
It takes decades of experience and hundreds and hundreds of man hours to make a William & Son shotgun. There’s an expert for the barrel, a master to handle the engraving, a wizard to finish it off and many more skilled hands involved in the entire process. We get to see a glimpse of how … Continued
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Tech NewsTed Cruz Really Was Pointing His Gun At His Friends
Yesterday, we showed you Ted Cruz holding his shotgun backwards, blatantly flouting the first two rules of gun safety. Now, we have a new video from the same photo op perfectly demonstrating why this is a bad idea. Would you want to be one of the hunters he’s pointing his gun at? Since you can … Continued
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