grenades
Weapons
MetalStorm 3GL Can Launch 720 Grenades A Minute
4:40AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Milkor MGL/M32, a lightweight 40mm semi-automatic, 6-shot grenade launcher. It does a lot of bang-bang-my-baby-shot-me-down, but it’s no match for the deadly simple, electronically-fired MetalStorm 3GL. More »
Weapons
Grenade Launcher Taser Can Hit People 60m Away
2:59AM Jesus Diaz | This is exactly what the world needs: another taser. This one can be fired using a standard 40mm grenade launcher, which gives it a 60m range — three times the range of the XREP. Supposedly, it’s non-lethal. Some disagree: More »
Weapons
India’s Chilli Grenades Will Be Five Alarm Firepower
11:00AM Sean Fallon | Non lethal chilli grenades—think about the potential here. A handheld weapon made with the fiery Bhut Jolokia chilli would burn, devastate your orifices, and add a spicy kick to your dinner. Indian defence scientists are determined to make it happen. More »
Weapons
Army Getting Electro-Magnetic Pulse Grenade to Mess Up Bin Laden’s Xbox
4:20AM Jesus Diaz | Those Pentagon heads have been playing too much Star Wars Republic Commando again, because now they want to give soldiers Electro-Magnetic Pulse grenades, according to the head of the new US Army’s Electronic Warfare Division: More »
Music
Build Your Own MP3 Grenade For Free Cavity Searches
5:00AM Sean Fallon | Using a (and I can’t stress this enough) inert hand grenade, a 1GB Sansa MP3 player and a hacksaw, you too can make this lethal-looking portable player. More »
Weapons
Russia’s New Armour-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An ‘Abrams Killer’ Apparently
12:30AM Kit Eaton | The new rocket-propelled grenade RPG-30 anti-armour weapon recently unveiled in Russia has a sneaky trick to help it get past active defenses—it fires a tiny decoy rocket flying ahead of the main warhead. This is to confuse defensive systems into attacking the decoy, meaning they’re too busy to successfully defeat the real weapon inbound just a tenth of a second or so behind. The RPG then has a 105-mm tandem warhead that is apparently capable of penetrating 650mm of steel armour, and can defeat reactive explosive armour too, earning it the “Abrams killer” label. More »
Peripherals
Grenade Mouse: If Rambo Used a Computer
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | This is the most hardass mouse I’ve ever seen. It’s a mouse stuffed inside of an actual grenade shell (that’s sadly plastic, I was a little overexcited after watching Rambo the other night). Sure, it’s a crappy Targus mouse lurking underneath its rippled casing. And you know it’s goddamn uncomfortable. But that’s part of the point. More »
Design
Shooter Fire Extinguisher Adds a Little Nerf-iness to Battling Blazes
10:45PM Kit Eaton | Were the humble, boring old fire extinguisher to be reworked in the style of this concept design, dubbed Shooter, they’d be grabbed from the wall and used inappropriately in offices waaaay more frequently. Because, as its name suggests, the device is meant to behave like a friendly Nerf-style grenade launcher, aiming plastic pellets of CO2 into the flames. This has the advantage of keeping you away from the fire, with a better range than throw-style pellets, and less complication than a standard sprayer version. And more fun/danger at the office Christmas party too. [Yanko Design] More »
Gadgets
Capsule Fire Extinguisher Concept Arms You With Flame-Tamping Grenades
12:50AM Gizmodo US Edition | This rugged fire-extinguisher concept contains both an oxygen supply to help you breathe and exploding powder pellets that you roll, grenade-like, into a fire to put it out at a distance. We’re slightly worried at the idea of having an oxygen tank near lots of flames, but hey ho, it’s great that designer Woo Seok Park is looking at improving the humble extinguisher with this Capsule concept. Our imagination now has us racing to tackle that burning building with McClane-like shouts of “Yippeekay-ay, Motherf…” Well, you know the rest. [Yanko designs] More »
