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You Can Now Watch the Entirety of Agents of SHIELD Web Spinoff, Slingshot

After Agents of SHIELD came to a close for the midseason last week, Marvel announced a short new webseries for the show, Slingshot, starring speedy Inhuman Yo-Yo Rodriguez. Well, the wait is already over: you can now watch the whole thing online. ABC’s YouYube channel has dropped all six episodes of Slingshot, which you can…

Facebook quietly announced that its weird app experiment is over, and it will be closing the Creative Labs that led the initiative. That means apps like Slingshot (a Snapchat ripoff) and Rooms (a Reddit ripoff) will no longer be available for download. RIP Creative Labs. We never really knew you. Contact the author at [email protected].…

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…

Human Angry Bird launches into the sky using a giant slingshot

This is pretty damn cool: Rather than just jumping off the edge of a cliff, this BASE jumper turned himself into a real-life Angry Bird, using giant slingshot—and some feathers—to launch into the sky. The only thing that I’m missing is him eating some bacon after opening his parachute. SPLOID is a new blog about…

Facebook Is Testing Self-Destructing Posts

Spotted by The Next Web, Facebook is testing a new feature that would allow people to schedule a time for their posts to be scrubbed from their timeline. This “Choose Expiration” feature lets you choose a life expectancy from 1 hour up to 7 days, based on user screenshots. Facebook has said they were testing…

Facebook’s Snapchat Clone Just Got a Little Less Ridiculous

Slingshot, Facebook’s second swing at Snapchat-like ephemera, may be pretty to look at, but until now, it’s suffered from one huge problem: It didn’t make a lick of sense. Thankfully, Facebook’s finally remedied that by getting rid of its absurd reply-to-unlock feature. In other words—you can actually use it to have a normal conversation. Before…

​Polaris Slingshot: Can Three Wheels Make A Better Roadster?

What you’re looking at is going to be one of the most fun cars debuting for 2015. But, the Polaris Slingshot isn’t a car, it’s a “motorcycle.” Here’s why that matters and what it means for you, the enthusiast driver. It’s really, really, really hard to bring a new car to market. That’s why very,…

Slingshot’s Designers Say You’re Using It Wrong

Facebook’s new app, Slingshot, is confusing. The premise behind it is that you can send images to your friends—but they won’t be able to see your image until they send one back to you. As a messaging service, it’s flawed. But, according to the app’s designers, it’s not a messaging service. It’s something entirely different.…

Are You Using Facebook’s Slingshot?

Slingshot is Facebook’s second attempt at trying to jump onto the ephemeral messaging bandwagon. It’s basically a mashup of the disastrous Poke and Snapchat but with a twist – to unlock a message you’ve received, you need to send one back. If you’ve tried it, you’ll know that at best, this is a chore. At…

Why Snapchat’s Imitators Don’t Work

The last few months have seen a crushing wave of Snapchat imitators, pretenders to the ephemeral throne. And every one of them has completely missed the point. There’s a reason Snapchat’s become so popular, and it’s not just because it was first. Yes, it’s only a vague likeness of real, human interaction, but it’s a…

Facebook Slingshot Hands On: A Less Useful, More Confusing Snapchat

Facebook just unveiled its latest standalone app: Slingshot. It’s a lot like Snapchat, except worse. I hate to say it, but even Poke was more fun than this. Don’t get me wrong. Slingshot is a pretty app, with an original twist. Like Snapchat, it lets you send your friend a photo or video (plus whatever…

Facebook’s Snapchat Competitor Is Finally Here (For Real This Time)

After a false start late last week, Facebook’s Snapchat clone is finally available, on purpose, and will stay so for the foreseeable future, or the end of recorded history, whichever comes first. http://www.sling.me/ https://gizmodo.com/you-can-download-slingshot-facebooks-snapchat-competit-1588228152

Slingshot, Facebook’s Snapchat-Like Competitor, Is Finally Here (Update: Patience!)

Adding to Facebook’s ever increasing lineup of standalone apps, Slingshot is the social media giant’s latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Hey—it can’t be any worse than Poke. Just like Snapchat, Slingshot lets you annotate and draw all over self-destructing images. Unlike Snapchat, it seems that your friends won’t actually be able to see the…

Pencils Are Even More Deadly When They’re Actually Steel Nails

The thing I appreciate about The Slingshot Channel is that it always brings projects two or three iterations past what I would ever think to pursue. The pencil shooter Joerg made last week was more of a curiosity. Not the most deadly thing we’ve seen by a long shot. See what I did there? Anyway,…

“Brain Slicer” Arrowheads Sound Like The Most Legit Arrowheads

What’s a casual way to start a video? How about a fun little opening introducing what you’re going to do or make. You could say something like, “Arrows are normally a good way to pierce a skull, but I’m concerned that [they] may not destroy enough brain matter.” Light hearted fun! Of course over at…

Alien Probes Could Already Be In Our Solar System According To Math

If you’ve been trying to recall what makes theoretical math super fun, here’s a reminder. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh published a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology that examines how long it would take Voyager-sized probes to bop around the Milky Way and eventually encounter our solar system. The answer is not…

The Slow-Motion Physics of Hand-Held Slingshots

We’re big fans of the Smarter Every Day and Slingshot YouTube channels—so it’s always nice when Destin and Joerg, their respective owners, get together. This time round, they use high-speed photography to take a close look at the physics of hand-held slingshots—and work out how to make them as destructive as possible. https://gizmodo.com/the-rooftop-zombie-slingshot-will-save-your-life-during-5854760 In the…

African Spear Throwing Slingshot Bazooka Is Internet’s Newest Insane Weapon

In the most destructive mixture of German and African culture since the Berlin Conference, Teutonic wood warlord Joerg Sprave has outdone himself. His newest Crazy Weapon might be the Craziest Crazy Weapon he’s ever Crazied. Aptly and subtly titled “Shaka Zulu’s Wet Dream,” Joerg’s assegai-thrower is a true menace. Sure, it’s not a very convenient…

This Slingshot Can Kill Humans—With Style

The $100 Montie Gear Y-Fork Slingshot—designed by Nichols Pennington—is made of aluminum, with a paracord-wrapped handle and a Thera-Band Gold flat band with a leather pouch. It can throw 0.5-inch ball bearings or .44 cal lead ball. If you buy this, be sure to be careful with it. It’s certainly not a toy and you…

Kabuto slingshot from One Piece now a deadly reality

In the manga One Piece, the pirate sniper Usopp employs a number of weapons and gadgets, among them the Kabuto, a five-pronged slingshot that doubles as a spear. Now slingshot-building millionaire Jörg Sprave has made a Kabuto of his own, and is showing off its deadly powers. Even if you’re not a One Piece fan,…