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9 of the Best Flops on Display at the Museum of Failure

The Juicero, Cyberpunk 2077, and Google Glass—The Museum of Failure, currently open in Brooklyn, has it all.

Culture Kevin Hurler May 1

You Can 3D-Print This Game Boy Blaster That Fires Foam Darts From Swappable Cartridges

We have to disagree. The Lame Boy is anything but lame.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Dec 9

This $180 Dart Blaster Is More Powerful Than Anything Nerf’s Ever Made

The most powerful and accurate toy dart blaster available today.

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 13

A Truly Amazing Batman: The Animated Series Figure, and More of the Best Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, which after a post-Toy Fair break, is back and ready to tempt your wallet with all sorts of lavish toys and collectibles. This week, we’ve got a very special Lego minifigure, almost comically deadly darts, and a Jabba worthy of any great Hutt’s display cabinet. Come take a look! Lego…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Mar 9

A Clever Trick Lets Nerf’s Newest Blaster Shoot a Seemingly Endless Stream of Darts

In New York next month the toymakers of the world will be showing off everything the kids in your life will be begging you for later this year. But ahead of Toy Fair 2018, Nerf has given us a sneak peek at a couple of new blasters it’s introducing, including one that helps solve the…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Jan 23

Playing Darts off a 150-Foot Tower Is Even More Dangerous Than in a Bar

One of humanity’s worst decisions has to be the pairing of darts with bars full of drunk patrons making terrible decisions. Throwing tiny pointed spears when you can barely stand once seemed like a dangerous way to have fun, until the lads at How Ridiculous decided to play darts off a 150-foot-tall observation tower. From…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 10

Don’t Get Hit by a Nerf Dart Traveling at Twice the Speed of Sound

YouTuber Giaco Whatever is on a quest to build a Nerf blaster that will do more than just leave a tiny welt on someone. He’s constructed an air-powered dart cannon that generates 400 PSI of pressure, and when cranked to full power, it can apparently send a Nerf dart flying at Mach 2.3, twice the speed…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Mar 24

Brilliant Motion-Tracking Dart Board Guarantees a Bullseye With Every Throw

A night at a local pub isn’t complete without a few rounds of darts, but as your blood-alcohol level rises, your ability to hit the bullseye greatly diminishes. Unless you’re playing with Mark Rober’s motion-tracking dart board that automatically repositions itself so you’re guaranteed to hit the bullseye every time. Rober, an ex-NASA engineer, spent three…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Mar 21

Guy Builds Home-Made Nerf Gun That’s Powerful Enough to Blast Foam Darts Right Through a Can

One of the things that makes toy dart blasters fun is that they can’t really hurt you. Sure, it doesn’t exactly tickle if you get shot at close range, but toy makers limit the power to keep lawsuits at bay. However, you don’t ever want to find yourselves in the crosshairs of this homebrew dart…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Mar 1

How to Build an Alarm Clock That Can Only Be Silenced by a Nerf Dart

The most dangerous object in your home isn’t the stove, the clothes iron, or that chainsaw in your garage. It’s your alarm clock’s snooze button that makes it so easy to go back to bed each morning. Silencing that alarm shouldn’t be so easy, so Christopher Guichet built an alarm clock that can only be…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Feb 22

An Exhaustive Explanation of the Best Nerf Dart to Reach For in Battle

Some people take their Nerf dart blasters very seriously. There are entire leagues dedicated to running around and blasting fellow players with foam darts—essentially a less painful version of paintball. But what darts are worth arming yourself with? Nerf expert Frank Cooper breaks it down in this exhaustively comprehensive comparison video. Hasbro’s Nerf brand certainly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 12

Soccer Darts Looks Even Harder to Play When You’re Drunk

Whoever thought that putting a game involving sharp pointed darts in a pub where people are getting drunk clearly wasn’t worried about safety. Foot Darts—a mashup of soccer and darts played with velcro-covered balls and a giant inflatable target—looks a little safer. Although we imagine it’d be just as difficult to hit the massive bullseye…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 14

What Are the Guts of a Dartboard Made of?

In the above gif you can see that the face material of a dartboard looks a whole lot like horsehair. And plenty of people will insist that high-quality dartboards are made with horse or camel hair, but it simply isn’t true. What’s really in a dartboard is called sisal, and it’s more closely related to…

Sploid Avery Ellis Jul 6

Magnetic Darts Are Scary Powerful

Need a weapon? Grab some magnets and some nails and you got yourself a hell of an arrow launcher. The magnets push out the nail darts so fast that it’s basically a mini crossbow mixed with a nailgun, no batteries necessary. Magnetic Games said that in order to get this powerful shot, the arrow and…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 11

Oh Great, Now That Weaponized Scalpel Blade Nerf Blaster Is Fully Automatic

Last week, slingshot mad scientist Joerg Sprave showed the world how to weaponize a Nerf blaster using scalpel blades. But since that apparently wasn’t dangerous or terrifying enough, this week Joerg’s back with a follow-up tutorial that explains how to make the whole thing fully automatic. Joerg even upgrades the batteries powering the Nerf blaster’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 29

Silently Stalk Your Co-Workers With Nerf’s Zombie Strike Blowgun

Even without a battery-powered motor whirring away inside, Nerf’s mechanical blasters aren’t exactly silent when being reloaded and fired. So for those times when stealth is of the utmost importance, the Nerf Zombie Strike Silent Strike is a simple lung-powered blowgun that won’t give away your position. Using it is as easy as loading a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5

Office Supplies Turn This 3D-Printed Plastic Tube Into a Throwable Dart

There are blogs, books, and endless YouTube videos dedicated to re-purposing office supplies into everything but productivity tools. But with this 3D-printed plastic tube you can easily turn a thumbtack, a few sticky notes, and your office’s cork board into a game of darts. You can order designer Elvin Chu’s Prisma Dart through Shapeways for…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 1

Build This Auto-Tracking Nerf Sentry Gun That Does all the Aiming for You

You’re supposed to spend at least part of your day at work doing actual work, but those rare times of productivity leave you vulnerable to surprise attacks from Nerf blaster-toting co-workers. Not if you build this robotic camera-equipped sentry turret to watch your back. This isn’t a cheap hack, mind you. You’ll need to start…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 1

Review: I’m So Bummed BOOMco’s Spinsanity 3X Isn’t a Better Dart Gun

Back in February, I got unreasonably excited about a dart gun: the BOOMco Spinsanity 3X. Firing 30 rounds of flying rubber up to 70 feet away, it looked like it could beat Nerf at its own game. You see, BOOMco has amazing darts that fly incredibly straight and magically stick to specially treated surfaces, but…

Tech News Sean Hollister Sep 18

Review: BOOMco’s Halo Dart Guns Aren’t All a Gamer’s Dream Come True

Yes, that’s right—this is a working Halo Needler. It shoots amazing darts that magically stick to targets, just like in the game. (No, they don’t explode.) It’s part of an entire line of new Halo dart guns produced by BOOMco. And I just tried them all. Incidentally, BOOMco is the company that now makes the…

Tech News Sean Hollister Sep 17

Darts

9 of the Best Flops on Display at the Museum of Failure

You Can 3D-Print This Game Boy Blaster That Fires Foam Darts From Swappable Cartridges

This $180 Dart Blaster Is More Powerful Than Anything Nerf’s Ever Made

A Truly Amazing Batman: The Animated Series Figure, and More of the Best Toys of the Week

A Clever Trick Lets Nerf’s Newest Blaster Shoot a Seemingly Endless Stream of Darts

Playing Darts off a 150-Foot Tower Is Even More Dangerous Than in a Bar

Don’t Get Hit by a Nerf Dart Traveling at Twice the Speed of Sound

Brilliant Motion-Tracking Dart Board Guarantees a Bullseye With Every Throw

Guy Builds Home-Made Nerf Gun That’s Powerful Enough to Blast Foam Darts Right Through a Can

How to Build an Alarm Clock That Can Only Be Silenced by a Nerf Dart

An Exhaustive Explanation of the Best Nerf Dart to Reach For in Battle

Soccer Darts Looks Even Harder to Play When You’re Drunk

What Are the Guts of a Dartboard Made of?

Magnetic Darts Are Scary Powerful

Oh Great, Now That Weaponized Scalpel Blade Nerf Blaster Is Fully Automatic

Silently Stalk Your Co-Workers With Nerf’s Zombie Strike Blowgun

Office Supplies Turn This 3D-Printed Plastic Tube Into a Throwable Dart

Build This Auto-Tracking Nerf Sentry Gun That Does all the Aiming for You

Review: I’m So Bummed BOOMco’s Spinsanity 3X Isn’t a Better Dart Gun

Review: BOOMco’s Halo Dart Guns Aren’t All a Gamer’s Dream Come True

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