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diy

Water Balloon Slingshot Brings the Wet into Hot American Summers

Now that we're headed deep into the middle of summer, it's time to bring out water balloons and figure out ingenious ways to fling them at your enemies. Here's a great tutorial at Instructables for making a wicked water balloon catapult using surgical tubing, a rag and other random doohickies from around the house. According to the dude responsible for this weapon of watery destruction, this shooter will never explode the water balloon prematurely, unlike some of the types you get in stores. [Instructables]

2:30 PM on Sat Jul 5 2008
By Elaine Chow
6,968 views, 11 comments

Latest by Navin R Johnson: There was a women in New Hampshire that lost an eye to one of those, no lie. [www.sunjournal.com] Just be aware peeps. more »

space

Who Needs Superman? Slingatron Slingshots Stuff Into Space

This Slingatron is the greatest thing we can think of to free up Superman's time for other things, like courting Lois or getting drunk and being a dick. Instead of spending $10,000 per pound to send stuff into space with traditional rockets, this Slingatron design is like a centrifuge that spins things around until they reach escape velocity before sending them flying into space. More »

7:20 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Jason Chen
4,006 views, 33 comments

gadgets

Human Slingshot: Natural Selection at Work or Just Plain Fun?


That's one brave gal strapped into that human slingshot. This can't be safe. But then, if it were completely safe, it wouldn't be as much fun. Okay, it's unanimous: We all want to do this, today. More »

12:20 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Charlie White
4,913 views, 35 comments

gadgets

US Military Developing Gigantic Magnetic 21,600mph Slingshot

Since the US military sucks up nearly a trillion dollars of our income taxes every year, they have plenty of money to blow, and here's one of the cool toys such prodigious amounts of cash will buy: it's a giant magnetic slingshot. But the spending has hardly even started on this one yet—the Air Force so far has contributed a paltry half million dollars to LaunchPoint Technologies to develop its idea of a satellite launch system that accelerates its payload around a giant ring using magnetic levitation (MagLev) technology. More »

12:07 PM on Wed Jan 3 2007
By Charlie White
2,374 views, 103 comments

Latest by wetboxersguy: freedom in the US? you cant even say "merry xmas" without offending and getting sued, much less putting up a xmas tree... more »

gadgets

Laser Sight'd Slingshot

This slingshot has a laser-pointer integrated into its frame. The manufacturer guarantees that it's dangerous to 250 feet, and can hit beer cans or filthy city pigeons at 50 feet.–Brian Lam More »

12:36 PM on Thu Sep 7 2006
By Brian Lam
1,777 views, 11 comments