If pop culture is any indication, bows and arrows are the weapon of the future. Weird, right? But also delightful: The Hunger Games stars an arrow-slinging heroine. Hawkeye will defend the Earth using a bow and arrow in The Avengers. The summer Olympics will have awesome archery competitions to ogle. And the TV’s newest superhero will pull back a bow on Green Arrow.
Whether you’re walking through a dark city alley or stalking prey in wilder terrain, Nuge knows you should always be armed, preferably with a bow. That’s where this crossbow-ish marshmallow shooter comes in. Just pop a load of Stay Pufts into the Bow and Mallow’s magazine, draw back the bowstring and let fly the marshmallows of war. The US$20 weapon supposedly fires up to 30 feet; my own experience with more primitive marshmallow blasters leads me to believe that they are probably not lying. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]
newVideoPlayer("wiibow_gizmodo.flv", 475, 376,""); Thomas Foo put on his green tights and feathered hat, grabbed a real bow, attached a Wiimote to it, and made it all work together thanks to the ingenious use of some rubber bands and a switch. He named it the Virtual Archery Bow and, not happy with the hack, he created a full game for it. It’s called Trajectory, and it looks pretty good:
