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I Want to See This Javelin-Launching Slingshot Cannon Shatter Records At the Olympics

The Olympics are supposed to be a series of competitions that test the physical capabilities of the competing athletes. But increasingly, it seems like it’s become a competition over which athlete brings the best gear: be it highly-engineered running shoes, swimsuits, or sleds. So why shouldn’t track and field athletes be allowed to use a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Firing This Saw Blade-Launching Handheld Catapult Looks More Terrifying Than Getting Hit by It

Joerg Sprave has finally built an elastic-powered weapon that even the burly slingshot master can barely handle when the trigger’s pulled. It’s a handheld trebuchet (a type of catapult) that flings circular saw blades for hundreds of feet, and it looks almost as terrifying to yield as it is to be in the weapon’s crosshairs.…

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This Glowstick-Shooting Star Wars Blaster Replica Looks Like It’s Firing Actual Lasers

Star Wars cosplayers of the world take note: Joerg Sprave, the internet’s favorite slingshot-designing mad scientist, has come up with a clever way to simulate blaster fire in real life. Instead of employing dangerously powerful lasers that will get you kicked out of a convention faster than you can reload, his replica of Rey’s blaster…

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YouTube’s Craziest Inventor Built a Giant Sword-Launching Slingshot

Amateur life-risker Joerg Sprave has successfully built custom slingshots capable of firing everything from bowling balls, to Christmas trees, to lethal Lego bricks. His latest creation, a slingshot that can launch full-size swords, is as ludicrous-sounding as it is awesome to see in action. Sprave’s slingshots are mostly built from wood, but the giant elastics…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

A Homemade Brick Blaster Makes Lego Accidents Even More Painful

Joerg Sprave, the internet’s most famous slingshot-loving amateur super villain, has found ways to weaponize everything from foam Nerf darts, to those tiny Ikea pencils. His latest troubling achievement is a custom elastic-powered blaster that can turn Lego bricks into tiny projectiles. Anyone with kids already knows that Lego bricks, with their pointy corners, can…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

An Afternoon Spent at IKEA Is Even More Painful When You Weaponize Those Tiny Pencils

Even the most mild-mannered among us can’t spend an afternoon inside a sprawling IKEA warehouse without leaving full of rage. But if you want to drown your frustrations, do it in cheap hot dogs and soft serve ice cream instead of walking out the door, determined to weaponize those tiny IKEA pencils. Up until about…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

A Bowling Ball Slingshot Is Exactly As Destructive As You Hope it Would Be

To celebrate reaching a million subscribers on YouTube, the internet’s favorite slingshot-building madman, Joerg Sprave, has engineered his largest creation to date: a massive elastic-powered weapon that turns bowling balls into flying projectiles. It’s capable of turning cinder blocks into pebbles, but you can also swap a bowling ball for a watermelon or a pumpkin…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Not Even Forrest Gump Could Survive This Ping-Pong Ball Gatling Gun

It seems like the best ping-pong players in the world have a sixth-sense for knowing exactly where the ball is going to be, often without even looking. But put them on the receiving end of slingshot-master Joerg Sprave’s new ping-pong ball gatling gun and they won’t stand a chance. Powered by a tiny electric drill,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

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

You Probably Shouldn’t Weaponize a Nerf Blaster With Scalpel Blades Like This Guy Did

As much as we’d love for slingshot-designer Joerg Sprave to visit the US on a publicity tour, it’s creations like this—a Nerf blaster made lethal using razor-sharp scalpel blades—that will probably result in him being barred entry to the country. In addition to his countless original creations, Joerg has a long track record of turning…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Weaponized Frisbee Is Straight Out of a James Bond Film

Joerg Sprave, the internet’s favorite weaponizer of perfectly safe and innocuous objects, is back with a build that will up the risk factor at your next picnic. Because while getting hit in the head with a Frisbee might hurt, getting hit in the head with a Frisbee covered in surgical scalpels is a guaranteed hospital…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Weaponizing Nerf Toys: Don’t Try This at Home

Strict safety regulations and litigious lawyers mean your kids’ toy foam blasters don’t have a lot of power behind them. And that’s a good thing, unless you spend you days making insane slingshot creations and have decided that Nerf’s Rebelle Bow Blaster needed an upgrade like Joerg Sprave did. By swapping in some beefed-up elastics,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Lawn Dart Slingshot Is a Good Reminder Why They’re Still Illegal

It’s more surprising that lawn darts weren’t banned until 1988 in the US, instead of the day after they first went on sale. And if you need a good reminder as to why you can no longer easily buy a set, Joerg Sprave built a lawn dart slingshot cannon that explains why. YouTube is filled…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Stop and Stare In Awe At a Chainsaw-Powered Marble-Firing Machine Gun

His true passion might be designing and building some of the most ridiculous slingshots the internet has ever seen, but even Joerg Sprave needs to stretch his creative wings from time to time. Which is why Joerg’s most recent creation is an insane chainsaw-powered wooden machine gun that can decimate a target firing nothing but…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Skull Tongs Are a Great DIY Zombie Weapon for the End of Days

There are plenty of ways to kill a zombie, but everyone knows destroying the brain is the most important ingredient in the recipe for eliminating the undead. Applying his exhaustive skill set of creating dangerous machines that can decapitate, maim, and seriously injure, slinghshot master Joerg Sprave built what he’s called “Skull Tongs,” which can…

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Exploding Slingshot Ammo Is a Banger of a Good Time

Slingshot-whisperer Joerg Sprave has proven time and again that the rubber band weapons are awesome, but the one thing they’ve always been missing was a nice, satisfying bang. Until now. Turns out that all you have to do to make a slingshot sound like a gun is fire bullets out of it. Blanks of course,…

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This Slingshot Shoots Christmas Trees

Nothing embodies the holiday spirit quite like building a giant slingshot that can fire shaved Christmas trees equipped with a nine-inch nail. But that’s just what slingshot master Joerg Sprave did and created what he calls “The Santa Slayer.” Sprave quickly delimbs his missile-to-be, leaving only a few branches on top for fletching, and fires…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Guy Made a Spinning Wheel of Death With Clothespins and a Drill

Joerg Sprave is YouTube’s pre-eminent creator of all things slingshot. On The Slingshot Channel, he shows off his various crazy-genius creations varying from all different levels of lethality. This Sunday Sprave debuted, as he describes, “the world’s first drill-powered, fully automatic dart launcher.” Essentially each dart is strapped in a clothespin. Once Sprave powers on…

Tech News Darren Orf

A Rowing Machine Slingshot Is the First Time Rowing Has Been Scary

Joerg Sprave is our favorite kind of crazy, a YouTube star who builds lots and lots and lots (and lots) of insane slingshot creations. This time he’s applied the art of rubberized weaponry to personal fitness machines. He calls his new contraption the “Rowboat of Death,” and rightly so because this beast fires steel balls…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Slingshot Madman Proves the Nokia 3310 Is Nearly Indestructible

Before the smartphone revolution left the company behind, Nokia was synonymous with cellphones, particularly handsets that could seemingly survive anything. The Nokia 3310 is still considered to be one of the most indestructible of its breed. And who’s better-qualified to prove that than the mad scientist of slingshots himself? If seeing electronics launched almost 200…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

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I Want to See This Javelin-Launching Slingshot Cannon Shatter Records At the Olympics

Firing This Saw Blade-Launching Handheld Catapult Looks More Terrifying Than Getting Hit by It

This Glowstick-Shooting Star Wars Blaster Replica Looks Like It’s Firing Actual Lasers

YouTube’s Craziest Inventor Built a Giant Sword-Launching Slingshot

A Homemade Brick Blaster Makes Lego Accidents Even More Painful

An Afternoon Spent at IKEA Is Even More Painful When You Weaponize Those Tiny Pencils

A Bowling Ball Slingshot Is Exactly As Destructive As You Hope it Would Be

Not Even Forrest Gump Could Survive This Ping-Pong Ball Gatling Gun

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

You Probably Shouldn’t Weaponize a Nerf Blaster With Scalpel Blades Like This Guy Did

This Weaponized Frisbee Is Straight Out of a James Bond Film

Weaponizing Nerf Toys: Don’t Try This at Home

A Lawn Dart Slingshot Is a Good Reminder Why They’re Still Illegal

Stop and Stare In Awe At a Chainsaw-Powered Marble-Firing Machine Gun

Skull Tongs Are a Great DIY Zombie Weapon for the End of Days

Exploding Slingshot Ammo Is a Banger of a Good Time

This Slingshot Shoots Christmas Trees

This Guy Made a Spinning Wheel of Death With Clothespins and a Drill

A Rowing Machine Slingshot Is the First Time Rowing Has Been Scary

The Slingshot Madman Proves the Nokia 3310 Is Nearly Indestructible

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