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Guy Builds Nazi Tiger Tank, Invades Michigan
A Rommel-wannabe from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, has built a fully working, 1:2 scale version of the Tiger I 56.9-tonne heavy tank used by the Wehrmacht in World War II. Not happy with that, he drives his amazing creation—Guderian-style—on the road, with a "yellow triangle" on the back. The thing is so menacing that his neighbours called the police, thinking he was planning to take over Poland. Or Detroit. It could have gone either way. More »
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Gepetto Robot: Good at Paintball, Bad at Wii
While we're impressed by the technology behind military robots, it can be depressing when you realize that they're actually being produced to maim and kill. This paintball robot "Gepetto" gets rid of such guilt. And, as you'll see this video, it's a lot funnier when a robot turns on its master to cause moderate levels of pain rather than death. Hit the video at 1:15 to watch a grown man curl up like a sissy as his children laugh in the background.
Then, to watch the same robot trained for Wiimote control, hit the jump.
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That's a pretty cool photo, eh? There's a lot going on at once, it must have taken a lot of takes to get right, and that dude's face must have been destroyed at the end of the day. Well, sort of. It did take lots of takes, but it involved all sorts of photo and Photoshop magic. Hit the jump for a video showing just how the whiz kids at Bruton Stroube Studios put this piece of photo magic together. It's awesome, and it makes me want to go out and do some trick photography.
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Amazing 'Paintball Office' Photo Created Using Planning, Photoshop, and Magic
That's a pretty cool photo, eh? There's a lot going on at once, it must have taken a lot of takes to get right, and that dude's face must have been destroyed at the end of the day. Well, sort of. It did take lots of takes, but it involved all sorts of photo and Photoshop magic. Hit the jump for a video showing just how the whiz kids at Bruton Stroube Studios put this piece of photo magic together. It's awesome, and it makes me want to go out and do some trick photography.
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Crazy-Assed Idea to Shoot People with Drug-Filled Paintballs
Our Dear Leaders are always looking for new ways of quelling unrest in nonviolent—at least, notoverly violent—ways. (Let's face it, smacking someone over the head with a truncheon, and causing the blood to flow doesn't look great on news bulletins, does it?) The latest idea emanating from the Pentagon, according to a report by the Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project, is psychotropic paintballs. Bring 'em on!
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Whoever Made This Has a Fever for Paintball
The weapons genius who created this gizmo to terrorize his friends in the paintball arena is, I'm sure, having a lot of fun. But is he happy? Does he have something else in his life apart from neon-splattered T-shirts that his long-suffering mother washes lovingly for him each week? Because, frankly, I wonder whether any woman—be she a major shareholder in Sherwin-Williams or merely desperate—could snuggle up to this... More »
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Garmin Astro: Track Dogs, Peoples, Younger Siblings
While designed to track hunting dogs, the new Garmin Astro, which displays the exact location of its wireless transmitter(s) on its receiver/mapscreen, simply screams to be used in ways other than originally intended. Small enough to attach to a dog's collar, the transmitters can therefore be attached to the wimpiest of humans. So instead of bringing some real life into FPS, bring some FPS into real life: radar for paintball anyone? Given that the tracker generates a movement trail on the screen, it also seems ideal for those crazies who play Pac-Manhattan. Of course, you'd have to be crazy to pick one of these suckers up with its $650 price tag. More »
12:55 AM on Fri Jan 5 2007
By Matt Buchanan
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Latest by Elvisisdead: This isn't such a bad idea if you have some very expensive field-bred and trained hunting dogs. Springers go for ballpark $2K. If you've got two (or, for example if you were a guide and had a pack) it's a more »
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Paintball Minigun Guarantees Pain and Victory
You can wear all the field armor you want, chances are if you get shot with one of these you're going down for the count. The paintball minigun has six triggers and delivers 1,200 psi (pounds per square inch) of pressure, which means you'll be rolling on the ground in agony after being shot with this. Personally, I'll stick with tankball. More »
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Tankball: Like Paintball, But in Tanks
Get shot by one of these and chances are you'll have more than just a bruise to worry about, but if you're looking for the ultimate paintball rush, tankball is for you. You'll have to fly out to Northhamptonshire, England to give it a try, but $139 gets you two hours of tank time and quite possibly the biggest rush ever. Each battle pits you against another tank and you can have up to three buddies inside your vehicle. This is cool as hell, but it's a good thing we don't live in England cause we'd be too tempted to drive the tank out of range and invade small towns. Get us to England. More »
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