FLAMETHROWERS

The Federal Aviation Administration probably isn’t a fan of the drone flamethrower attachment that went viral last…

If you weren’t able to scrape together $500 to buy Elon Musk’s fund-raising flamethrower, YouTube’s Jairus of All…

Our brains are hard-wired with an unhealthy fascination with fire, and humanity will probably never get to the point…

Do you have $500 lying around and want to spend it on something that will, inevitably, lead to a much costlier…

Hacker Allen Pan built a pair of custom gloves featuring a butane dispenser, parts from an electric arc lighter, and…

Tony Hawk landing a 900 is an impressive feat, but do you know what would make it even more impressive? A trail of…

Using liquid nitrogen inside a thermos with a tube sticking out of it, YouTube’s TheBackyardScientist created a…

If you’ve ever stumbled across a creation that looked too unsafe to ever be attempted—be it a thermite cannon or a fl…

They’re one of the most terrifying and destructive weapons of war, but through the lens of a high-speed camera, a…

If sparklers are the most dangerous type of pyrotechnics you’ve ever dabbled with, it’s time to up your game with a h…

In the right hands anything can be used as a dangerous weapon. And in this case the anything is a container of corn…

You may think of zinc as "one of those metals we're supposed to eat." It keeps important enzymes functioning, and…

You may be familiar with the suicide booths of Futurama fame, but the automated death machine was perfected 20 years…

Whether you've got to start that campfire, like, 30 seconds ago, are ineffectually defending yourself from Polar…

There's no shortage of insane and awesome Jack-O'-Lanterns this time of year, but this is the first we've seen that…

We've seen many a fiery automaton in our day, but this flame-belching robo-pony seen at this weekend's Detroit Maker…

Many of you are probably either snowed in, cold, or at least inconvenienced by the latest onslaught of flakes.…

On January 22, 1948, Boston mayor Mayor James Curley wrote this letter to MIT President Karl Compton asking for "a…

Sometimes your unfriendly neighborhood juvenile delinquents will use your petunias as a mosh pit and your birdbath…

Whatever you're pedaling, it's time to give it a stern, disappointed look. Because it just got obliterated by this…