What can I say? Boom!

NightBlade

looks like female parts to me

nachobel

Is retardation explosion of fire balls, yes?

strider_mt2k

Not only fun, but deadly too!
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At first I thought saying "Oxygen supply' was a simple misnomer for "air supply;" then I looked closely at the picture. An Oxygen tank?! Why not fill the sprinklers with gasoline instead? Oxygen near an ignition source is a recipe for death (see "Apollo 1 Accident").
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We breath air, not Oxygen. Air at sea level is about 21% Oxygen. Any more is just a waste. Some people initially get a little light headed from breathing pure Oxygen (see ELO?) - posing another hazard, and Oxygen can cause a negative reaction in people with certain medical conditions, especially with some drugs. Which leads us to the possible violations of FDA regulations.
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Oxygen should be stored on-end, not upright. Have you ever noticed that trucks carry Oxygen stacked on their side, while acetylene and Nitrogen are usually upright? Upright Oxygen is not a good idea.
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Adding those "grenades" to the mix just seems to compound the problem. It seems like it would do as good a job spreading the fire as smothering it. And could send little fireballs flying straight at you and your supply of Oxygen. Even though the Oxygen doesn't actually burn, it makes everything else burn better - including you.
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The simple rules of fire safety say if you can't put it out a fire with an extinguisher in a few seconds, don't. Just get out fast. If you have problems breathing, drop to the floor and crawl out. There's usually more than enough Oxygen to breath down there. keeping a damp rag next to your bed to cover your mouth is probably a bigger help than this.
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If you're really worried, buy yourself a Scott Air-Pak to keep under the bed, and ask your local Fire Department for some training. After they're done laughing at you.

imajoebob

@daed: Doesn't oxygen explode when exposed to flame? I don't think any amount of it would be safe around a fire.

rsquared

@Geisrud: The extinguisher balls are an old idea: [search.ebay.com]

AmishJohn

hehe, just noticed the oxygen tanks are labeled O-squared.

daed

But you could carry a heck of a lot less O2. 15 minutes of O2 seems like it would be pretty small, and thus actually practical to keep around. And it couldn't oxidize TOO much if its tank melted, right?

daed

I kinda like the little grenades. I think it would be kinda fun to go into a fire (yes, I'm a firefighter) and toss a couple of these out of my pocket to help suppression.

Leave the oxygen tank at home, there's a reason why we carry compressed air to breathe, not O2.

Geisrud

@rsquared: No... oxygen is not combustible. It's what does the combusting. It's an oxidizer (oddly enough). Fire can't burn without it -- all oxygen does is let a fire burn hotter/faster. It does NOT make things explode, contrary to pop-culture belief. A tank of oxygen is a lot safer to have in a fire than a tank of acetylene. Or gasoline, IMAJOEBOB. Though you're right about the pure O2.. too early, didn't think it through. I was thinking you'd only have to breathe 20% O2, not thinking of where the other 80% of the gasses would be coming from (i.e. the smoky air around you) duh.

daed

Ever thrown Highly-Explosive Balls at a fire.... ON WEEEEEEDD... I mean, Oxygen.

decerbo

@imajoebob: Re: oxygen being stored upright vs on-end(do you mean on it's side?), do you have any more info on that? I've never heard of it, and have worked with oxygen for many years.

Geisrud

I've seen "extinguisher grenades" before. They look like smoke grenades, but instead of putting out smoke, they release nitrogen gas. They're supposed to be used in enclosed spaces like car fires and what-not.

barry99705

@imajoebob: "keeping a damp rag next to your bed to cover your mouth is probably a bigger help than this."

I used to have one of those when I was in 8th grade. Not sure if I'd want to use it to cover my mouth...

I'm not going to get anything done today.

WorkingOnYourInvoice

Oh, Yanko...

Will you ever design anything that's truly useful and not just amusing for its uselessness..?

ideaman2020

It's like something that futuristic firefighting game "Burning Rangers" for the Sega Saturn...oh, nevermind...I thought I was on Kotaku...

ploppyseed

please don't confuse the two separate parts of this device.

vorin

As I look around there are companies developing extinguishing balls and grandees. The grandees are down right scary.

Elide Fire (see exploding video mid their page) looks to sell both manual and automatically deployed anti-fire bombs. An
OK video in English.

Another video

It looks like the market is for areas with few trained fire brigades, with little fire suppression infrastructure, and places that have lots of burning trash cans, dumpsters, bins, and closets.

There is some company out there, a Russian?, that has a ball that explodes and releases a liquid. I can't find it.

*sirius at Yanko noted Elide earlier.

DeadWriter

I thought it was going to be fired out of the bottom like a cannon from ratchet and clank.
I mean hey if this things is n-e fun maybe when ima be a volunteer firefighter for the summer so i can go in like rambo roll on the floor and start throwing granades like a 007 movie

SneakerFiend

@imajoebob: I think you may be misconstrewing something about gas transport and use.

Some regulation systems can manage gas bottles handled at any angle.

As far as transport, I was always taught bottles are stored and transported upright, as they have the least chance of doing damage should the top come off. If you have ever exchanged tanks then you know they are heavy, even if empty. I'd leave them sideways if I were transporting them back. It may even be policy.

Escape: There are lots of safety hoods with built in scrubbers that both cool the gases you breath and remove the harmful ones, protect the head, and have a long storage life.

Now as far as this device goes- neat idea but I too think it will cause more problems that it solves.

DeadWriter

My only comment would be that if you're deep enough in a fire that you require oxygen and you're only armed with a fire extinguisher, then your best chance of survival is to GTF out.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer