Exploding dye toy grenade: four words that really shouldn't go together, but sound so much fun when they do. A new patent shows a design that has a working time-delay pin, and a compressed air canister to blow the powder and dye contents liberally around once the shell splits in two. We're thinking it'll be used in paintball-style combat, but how long do you think it would be until some kid uses it to dye-bomb his parents in a fit of teenage rage? At least it would be better than using a real lethal weapon, hey? [Gadget Lab]
Exploding Dye Toy Grenade Patented, Parents Nervous Already
10:15 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Kit Eaton
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Paint ball yes. Other applications? No. Not many that'll be useful. And I hope they don't make it to look like a real grenade. Otherwise we'll start seeing these on TV in schools too.
Dno't they already make paintball grenades?
I miss those sharp metal toys that I enjoyed as a kid. The most that would happen is I hurt myself if I stepped on one in the dark, but I'd never get the shit kicked out of me for using it in the house.
I'd use it to paint my bathroom. Then I'd be able to drop a different type of bomb in there...
@qbrad: Yes, but from what I have seen/understand, they are almost like paint "balloons".
Dont they have something like this already, that supposedly, they slip into money bags during a bank robbery, which then explodes, coloring all the money and the robbers?
I'm waiting for when they come out with the paint flamethrower. Watch out, I'll be king of the paint ballers.
paintbal grenades as said b4 are basicly tubes of paint being a pretty big paintballer paintbrenade technology is pretty much non existant but this could be used very effectivly i know i want to play wth this
Those vandal kids are going to be toast with this gizmo. I'll need to mount it inside the mailbox so it goes off when they open it.
Note to self: Don't forget to remove it from the mailbox early Monday morning before the postman drives by...
"Throwing frag!!!!"
Ooops sorry. I momentarily reverted back into FPS mode for a sec there....
holy smoke..... how long before some pilot drops these on TULSA ?
they already have these for paintball, they're about $10 each
As if water guns haven't been available for decades already.
Just don't leave it sitting under a p bridge, the police will find it and call in a bomb threat.
I actually have one of these, use it for Airsoft, nothing dangerous about it. Frag Out!
this will be a riot at school or the airport or anywhere in public.
@AlphaUltima: I don't know if it would "be" a riot but I am sure it would "cause" a riot. XD
Mr. Bean, where art thou?
There used to be an exploding paint grenade. It was an M69 made by strange ordinance, but this is going back 15 years. It was taken off the market because it, well, exploded.
Some dude in my highschool back then pissed me off to the point that I tossed one in the sunroof of his car. It wasn't pretty lol
Or I could just make something myself and be even happier!
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