Category: Weaponry
When Ninjas attack… your fridge
The other day, CrunchGear wrote up a useful, in-depth analysis of the Pirates vs Ninjas debate. They concluded the latter, but I think they forgot about the fact that Pirates are constantly drunk, so don’t really feel any pain.
However, if a Ninja needed to leave you a note (saying you were ‘next’ or reminding you to buy some milk, perhaps), this is how he (or she) would do it. They’d sneak into your kitchen in the dead of night, silencing your dog with a poison dart, and then use one of these throwing star magnets to affix the note (written in blood, obviously) to the fridge door, or any other convenient metal surface.
Sadly the site that sells these BRILLIANT items is out of stock until January. We’ve known about these for a couple of weeks, but didn’t want to get your hopes up about a sneaky Christmas present before now. Still, if you fancy pre-ordering for when they’re restocked, then they cost just £12.80, plus shipping.
Epaulet (via OhGizmo!)
1/4 RC King Tiger tank – state of the art bang-bang
Do you like radio control toys? Have you ever wanted to own a World War II German killing machine? Do you have £6,600 lying around? If the answer to these three questions is “yes”, then the 1/4 size RC King Tiger tank from Mark 1 Tanks is the perfect gadget for you.
It comes with two fully functioning treads…
Lunatic creates real-life 'Lancer' rifle from Gears of War
You’ve got to love insane Americans living in the woods. This one has managed to combine a chainsaw and a gun in a real-life approximation of Gears of War’s “Lancer” assault rifle. He claims it’s a “Firearm Mounted Anti Zombie Device”. We’ve got a video of it tearing up pumpkins right after the jump, and there’s plenty more on the forum link, over the jump.
.22 mobile phone gun – the Italian Mafia's new weapon of choice
Italian police have discovered the Mafia’s latest tech weapon in an early morning raid on a hideout in Naples. This a mobile phone gun and it was confiscated along with a pile of bullet proof vests, drugs and other munitions
The .22 calibre device can hold four rounds…
TD Tips: Self defence gadgets
Well, we thought we’d get a little more savory today after last week’s celebration of World Toilet Day here on TD Tips and instead we’ve chosen to take another serious issue and make is as silly as possible.
With all the media hoo-har over the possibility of handing potentially lethal taser weapons over to non-specialist trained police officers, who may or may not suffer inferiority complexes and large chips on their shoulders, we thought we’d take our pick of the best non-lethal self defence gadgets that money can buy.
The rules are…
US Army want brains… Zombies to join NATO soon?
News just in from the “scary shit” department is that the American army are looking into developing a number of technologies that wouldn’t look out of place in Star Trek. Holograms, virtual people, and controlling peoples memories are all on the agenda.
Take on burglars… dark ages style
The world is on alert tonight after intelligence reports have suggested that the Vikings may be coming back and launching a new wave of attacks. Unlike the only partially successful invasion 1300 years ago, this time it looks as though the hoards may have a new trick up their sleeves. From the country that brought us IKEA comes a new high-concept bedside table that can transform in moments to a battle ready club and shield (some assembly required).
Do policemen dream of electric sheep?
A traffic jam caused by a runaway sheep in North Wales was solved by police using a Taser. The police offer in question, when faced with the problem of how to move a sheep out of the road, inexplicably decided the best course of action was to pull out his “non-lethal” electricity stun gun, zap the poor beast, and carry it to the side of the road, still twitching…
Raygun testing begins – 100kW electro-laser nearly ready for battlefield use
Military developer Northrop Grumman has a dream. A dream to create proper rayguns. A dream we would happily fund by paying extra tax and posting it off to the American government should it be able to pull it off.
But that’s not necessary – it has already done it. Northrop will soon start testing a 100 kilowatt model of its Joint High Power Solid State Laser, which chains together eight smaller 15kW models. It has already successfully tested a chain of two…
"non-pneumatic tire" (or tyre if you're English) – very exciting for non-latex based rubber
Why am I so excited by these tyres? I was going to ask you/me/the ether that very question but I’ve answered it even before I managed to tap it out into Movable Type. I’m excited by these tyres because they’re completely brilliant. They’re cool. I hate to use that word but they are. They’re cool.
These tyres are cool because they’re a game changer – another phrase I can’t stand. Unfortunately, the game in this case happens to be military warfare but it seems some good can come out of the practise of killing people.
The NPT has been developed by Resilient Technologies as part of their $18m grant from the Pentagon (I wonder if they’d give me one of them?) and it’s made of a honeycomb structure that’s enough to hold up the weight of a Humvee…
