High School Student Wrestles Gun Away From Football Player to Prevent Shooting, Gets Slapped With Suspension
Wednesday, 6th March 2013Posted in Online Video
Tags: Cypress Lake High School, Florida, football player, gun, lee, shooting, wrestle
Written by: Jeff Nau
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A 16-year old Florida teenager is returning to school after a 3-day suspension, the result of a confrontation involving a loaded gun on a school bus last week.
The teen, who attends Cyprus Lake High School, says that he was riding the bus home when he witnessed another teen pull out the loaded .22 caliber weapon, and point it at another. Summoning some superhuman bravery, he immediately proceeded to try and wrestle the gun away from the assailant. Continue reading “High School Student Wrestles Gun Away From Football Player to Prevent Shooting, Gets Slapped With Suspension” »
7 Year Old Boy Suspended By School for Shaping Pastry Into a Gun (Update: Letter To Parents)
Sunday, 3rd March 2013Posted in Offbeat
Tags: 7 year old boy, gun, pastry, school, suspended
Written by: Paul Nyhart
You can’t make this stuff up (chances are if you did you’d probably get suspeneded)…
A 7 year old boy was given a two day suspension for shaping his lunch pastry into a gun and reportedly making “bang, bang” sounds with it (it’s been at least a decade since I’ve typed the phrase bang, bang sounds).
The tragedy of it all, according to the boy, was that the pastry was shaped to originally fashion itself after a mountain. Continue reading “7 Year Old Boy Suspended By School for Shaping Pastry Into a Gun (Update: Letter To Parents)” »
Meet The $17,000 Linux Powered Rifle, Complete With Auto-aim
Wednesday, 9th January 2013Posted in Offbeat
Tags: 000, 17, auto aim, gun, irl, Quake, Rifle
Written by: Paul Nyhart
CES 2013 has revealed a weapon that looks like it’s something straight out of the Terminator, except this gun actually has a price tag (and probably a waiting period of at least three days).
The Austin based startup, TrackingPoint, believes they have developed a ”Precision Guided Firearms” that allows you to capture the perfect shot. Together the gun is made of a modified trigger mechanism with variable weighting, and a computerized digital tracking scope. It also has hand-loaded match grade rounds, which are purchased directly from the manufacturer. Continue reading “Meet The $17,000 Linux Powered Rifle, Complete With Auto-aim” »
Putting iPad Minis to the Test…With a Minigun
Monday, 19th November 2012Posted in Online Series
Tags: blow up, destroy, gun, ipad mini, minigun, Rated RR, Richard Ryan, Tech Assassin
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Richard Ryan, host of Internet video series Rated RR, makes it his weekly mission to dissect movie and video game action sequences and show viewers how they were done.
Think of it as a sort of Mythbusters, but for fans of action movies (or just plain action); one week he’s showing how communist paratroopers would take over the country in his Red Dawn breakdown; another, he’s simply blowing up iPhones with rocket launchers.
This latest episode falls into the latter category, with Ryan putting Apple’s latest product under heavy fire. Several thousand rounds a minute of machine gun artillery, to be exact. Continue reading “Putting iPad Minis to the Test…With a Minigun” »
DAILY RANT: Man Orders TV From Amazon, Receives Military Grade Assault Rifle Instead
Thursday, 9th August 2012Posted in Blog Archive
Tags: amazon, Assault Rifle, gun, mashable, Rifle, Sig Sauer 716 patrol rifle, tv
Written by: Paul Nyhart
Seth Horvitz was just a regular guy jonesing for a new TV when he purchased one off Amazon, what he ended up with however was a Sig Sauer 716 patrol rifle that is illegal in most metropolitan cities.
Horvitz originally purchased a 39 Inch LCD monitor for around $320 through Amazon, but inexplicably received the $1600 rifle intended for Independence Gun Shop in Pennsylvania.
“When I saw some metal parts inside the box, I thought, ‘Maybe this is a TV stand or mount or something,” he told the magazine. “When I realized it was an assault rifle, it was pure shock and disbelief.”
Scientists Know What The World Needs: A Hoverboard Lightsaber Portal Gun!
Tuesday, 19th June 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Online Video, Pop Culture
Tags: gun, hoverboard, light saber, portal, star wars, turret
Written by: Jeff Nau
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Instead of searching or a cure for cancer, one brave scientist apparently decided to buck all trends and create what pretty much all prepubescents, teens and pretty much every living human being really wants.
That would be the The Hoverboard Lightsaber Portal Gun — a mutant offspring between the universes of Star Wars, Back to the Future II, and of course Portal. The end results are pretty entertaining. Continue reading “Scientists Know What The World Needs: A Hoverboard Lightsaber Portal Gun!” »
If A Portal Gun Really Existed, It Might Look Something Like This
Tuesday, 12th June 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Offbeat
Tags: 3D, gun, portal, viral vide
Written by: Paul Nyhart
Jason Craft had a simple idea: create and duplicate the infamous gun from the Portal series.
What he never thought he’d be able to re-create actually turned out to work like a charm…well work is a loose term of course.
As you’ll see in the video Continue reading “If A Portal Gun Really Existed, It Might Look Something Like This” »
Russia Developing New Brain-Scrambling ‘Zombie’ Gun
Monday, 9th April 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Offbeat
Tags: brain scrambling, gun, Putin, russia, USSR, zombie
Written by: Jeff Nau
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The cold war may be over and the USSR may have fallen (as of over 20 years ago now) but they still haven’t stopped doing batsh*t crazy stuff.
Like this: the development of a microwave-emitting gun that has the ability to “scramble your brain” and potentially control our minds like zombies. Via Geekologie comes news that Russia is in the midst of developing such a monstrosity, endorsed by newly-elected amidst massive protest president Vladimir Putin himself: Continue reading “Russia Developing New Brain-Scrambling ‘Zombie’ Gun” »
Augmented Reality ‘Xappr Gun’ for iPhone and Android Available For Preorder
Friday, 24th February 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Gaming
Tags: accessory, android, augmented reality, gun, iPhone, shooter, Xappr
Written by: Craig Hunter
We told you about the App Blaster augmented reality gun accessory for iPhone in our holiday list of gifts for geeks. However, that’s only because the Xappr Gun dock wasn’t yet announced. Shown off earlier this month at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, the accessory is now officially up for preorder.
Apparently compatible with not just iPhones and iPods, but also Android and Windows Phone devices, the Xappr Gun is of course paired with a selection of augmented reality apps. Among the companion apps is AR Invaders, AR Wars, an upcoming “real-world multiplayer shootout game” called ATK, and around seven others. Continue reading “Augmented Reality ‘Xappr Gun’ for iPhone and Android Available For Preorder” »
NYPD Testing Remote Gun Detection Technology Using Terahertz Waves
Monday, 23rd January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: clothing, Defense Department, detection, gun, infrared, new, NYPD, object, technology, terahertz, york
Written by: Craig Hunter
According to a statement this week from the New York City Police Foundation, it is currently developing and testing new technology designed to detect secured weapons from a distance in conjunction with the Defense Department.
A report from the The New York Times said the technology works as a “reverse infrared mapping tool by reading the energy people emit and pinpointing where that flow is blocked by some object, like a gun”. Physics professor John Federici who talked to Huffington Post said the technology is known as terahertz imaging detection. Continue reading “NYPD Testing Remote Gun Detection Technology Using Terahertz Waves” »
U.S. Army Branded Xbox and PS3 Accessories Coming Soon
Friday, 6th January 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Gaming
Tags: army, controller, CTA Digital, gun, headsets, modern warfare, Move, peripherals, playstation, ps3, xbox
Written by: Craig Hunter
There isn’t a shortage of gaming accessories on the market for Xbox and PS3, but the U.S. Army is intent on cashing in on the success of games like Modern Warfare with a selection of official Army-branded gaming accessories.
The product page for the products describe them as for “modern gaming warfare”, which I guess is as close as you can get to marketing something as “Modern Warfare” without Activision suing you. Continue reading “U.S. Army Branded Xbox and PS3 Accessories Coming Soon” »
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