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New Security System Uses AI to Shoot Criminals With Paintballs

The creators say tear gas might even be used to hit potential threats.

Tech News Matt Novak Jun 20

Squid Game: The Challenge Goes Full Meta With Reality Show

Contestants compete in cutthroat games (minus the whole death thing, of course) in this spin-off of the hit Netflix drama. Watch the trailer now.

Trailers Sabina Graves Oct 23

Nerf Shrunk Its Balls for a New Line of More Powerful Blasters You’ll Rarely Have to Reload

The least enjoyable part of a friendly Nerf battle isn’t getting hit, it’s constantly having to stop to reload your blaster. The inconvenience improved with Nerf’s Rival line, which debuted in 2015, but for 2021 the company is introducing a new Hyper line of blasters that fire smaller foam balls so you’ll be spending even…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski Feb 25

Slo-Mo Footage of Impossible Mid-Air Paintball Collisions Is Better Than Fireworks

The odds of two paintball projectiles colliding in mid-air during a match are incredibly slim. And even if they did, the resulting explosion would happen so fast your eyes would barely see it. But with some clever timing, even more luck, and a Phantom V2511 high-speed camera recording at 28,500 frames per second, you can…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Aug 28

Playing Operation Is Even More Stressful When It’s Hooked Up to a Paintball Gun

The board game Operation is a great example of how negative feedback can also negatively affect your performance. But instead of playing in constant fear of that loud buzzing sound, when you touch the sides while playing this sadistic version of Operation, you get blasted with a paintball gun. Sounds like a lot of fun.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 19

An Awesome Guy Made a Flying Drone Armed with a Paintball Gun

Any sort of flying drone is already awesome. How do you make it more awesome? Attach a camera and arm it with a paintball gun so it can fly around and shoot unsuspecting people, animals and/or objects. Doesn’t that sound like a crap ton of fun? Made by Milo Danger, it’s a little bit of…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 12

Paintball Pellets Could Deflect an Asteroid from Destroying Earth

It almost sounds as implausible as sending an oil driller to plant a nuclear bomb inside an asteroid over an Aerosmith soundtrack but MIT researchers say shooting paintball pellets at an asteroid could bump an asteroid off its course. It’s not automatic, of course. First of all, we’ll need about 20 years lead time to…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan Oct 27

Zombie mall experience lets you live out your Dawn of the Dead nightmares

Do you think you could survive a few hours in a zombie-infested mall with a rifle and a few buddies? The British company Wish.co.uk lets you test out your zombie killing skills with an airsoft course set inside an abandoned mall, filled with shambling actors. Wish.co.uk offers consumers a number of experiences, from simple spa…

io9 Lauren Davis Apr 21

Paintball – Paintballers = Scenes From The Apocalypse

Paintball courses are pretty derelict locations, and they become even more uninviting when all of the players are excised. For their Days Lost series of photographs, Peter Chadwick and Katja Mayer have shot the immediate aftermath of paintball duels. With the players out of the picture, the courses become engulfed in an ominous, otherworldly miasma…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 2

SodaMod: Save Money On SodaStream Refills With a Hacked Paintball Canister

One of the main reasons people love the SodaStream is that you save money by making your own sparkling water. Supposedly. Unfortunately, replacing those CO2 canisters is expensive. This clever hack will help you cut those costs by a huge margin. https://gizmodo.com/the-cheap-unlimited-source-of-the-fizzy-water-you-cant-5893391 The owner of Critical Paintball came up with SodaMod, which is a custom…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 15

Kid Gets Box of Porn and Viagra Instead of Paintball Gear

Christmas and/or Hanukkah came early for little Connor Whelihan, whose paintball order was replaced by a giant box of porn, Viagra, and “sex oils,” the NY Daily News reports. Whelihan’s now prepared for explosive warfare of an entirely different sort. Connor’s delighted, his mother’s infuriated, and the paintball company won’t answer any questions. I think…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 23

Yes. Paintballing Is Bad for Your Breast Implants

Last weekend, a 26-year-old woman decided to go paintballing with some friends. She got shot. It happens. But while in routine surgery the following Monday, it was found that the fire she took tore through damaged one of her breast implants. What?? I mean, I suppose it shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Paintballs can move at…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 27

You Wouldn’t Believe Paintball Guns Could Make Art Like This

If you can ignore the blatant advertising (DO THE DEW DUDES), you’ll see the masterful skill of painting ball art, I mean, paintball art. It’s amazing, the guys literally fire paintball guns to create astonishingly detailed portraits of two fine Americans.

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 22

Paintballing and Nerf Combined to Make This Water Gun

Playing with xploderz looks like shooting paintballs only without the paint. Or the pain, even after flying at your target from 85 feet away. Check them out for anywhere from 15 to 70 bucks. [Amazon via The Awesomer]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 5

Watch This 840 Barrel Paintball Gun Make Art In 1/8th of a Second

To anyone wondering why on earth you’d want to build a paintball gun capable of firing 840 barrels’ worth of ammo in 1/8th of a second, well, I bet you don’t get why we went to the moon either. The video above—wherein the massive paintillery explodes insta-graffiti onto a wall—was a marketing stunt sure. And…

Tech News Brian Barrett May 12

Paintball Robots!

A madcap inventor is seeking $15,000 on Kickstarter, to bring these paintballin’ robots to life. With stair-climbing wheels and a rotating top, they could be used to spice up 10 Things I Hate About You homages or actual combat. Or both, at the same time! So far, every part has been made by hand, in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Feb 25

All The Single (Legged) Ladies: If You Like It Then You Should Put a Machine Gun On It

Filmmaker Rob Spence, famed for his camera eyeball implant, is looking for an eligible young woman. Who’s missing a leg. So he can give her a paintball machine gun. That she will attach to her leg. https://gizmodo.com/filmmaker-gets-his-cyborg-like-led-prosthetic-eye-5204545 Spence is working on a documentary about his “Eyeborg” project—turning a disability into a superpower—and wants to give…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 26

Automated Paintball Sentry vs. Little Brother: Not a Fair Fight

Click to viewLook, kid, I know you need to defend yourself. But a little plastic sword? You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight. [

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 7

Inkjet Facade Printer Confirms That Paintballs Are World’s Coolest Toner

There’s always a guerrilla undercurrent with graffiti, but the Facade Printer, which uses a computer-enhanced paintball gun to tattoo images onto buildings, really makes that aspect explicit. Judging by its work, it appears to have pretty good aim. The German contraption, which is comprised of an pressurized barrel mounted on a two-axis turntable, can blast…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert May 1

Staring Down the Barrel Of an MK-19 Grenade Nerf Launcher

If you’re someone who confuses paintball war with real war, you’ll be verrrrry interested in this MK-19 belt-fed Nerf launcher. The DIY shoots 2.5 rockets/second, weighs 100 pounds, and guarantees that everyone’ll want to be on your team. [UberGizmo]

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 23

Paintball

New Security System Uses AI to Shoot Criminals With Paintballs

Squid Game: The Challenge Goes Full Meta With Reality Show

Nerf Shrunk Its Balls for a New Line of More Powerful Blasters You’ll Rarely Have to Reload

Slo-Mo Footage of Impossible Mid-Air Paintball Collisions Is Better Than Fireworks

Playing Operation Is Even More Stressful When It’s Hooked Up to a Paintball Gun

An Awesome Guy Made a Flying Drone Armed with a Paintball Gun

Paintball Pellets Could Deflect an Asteroid from Destroying Earth

Zombie mall experience lets you live out your Dawn of the Dead nightmares

Paintball – Paintballers = Scenes From The Apocalypse

SodaMod: Save Money On SodaStream Refills With a Hacked Paintball Canister

Kid Gets Box of Porn and Viagra Instead of Paintball Gear

Yes. Paintballing Is Bad for Your Breast Implants

You Wouldn’t Believe Paintball Guns Could Make Art Like This

Paintballing and Nerf Combined to Make This Water Gun

Watch This 840 Barrel Paintball Gun Make Art In 1/8th of a Second

Paintball Robots!

All The Single (Legged) Ladies: If You Like It Then You Should Put a Machine Gun On It

Automated Paintball Sentry vs. Little Brother: Not a Fair Fight

Inkjet Facade Printer Confirms That Paintballs Are World’s Coolest Toner

Staring Down the Barrel Of an MK-19 Grenade Nerf Launcher

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