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Design
Marilyn Monroe Painted In Paintballs
12:20AM Mark Wilson | Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn” is one of the most recognisable pieces of art produced in the last century. In this clip, another artist recreates Warhol’s work with a squadron of paintball gunners. More »
Weapons
Japanese Police Now Equipped With Chintzy, Inaccurate Paintball Guns
2:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Paintball guns for police sort of make sense, if you live in a country of incredibly timid criminals. But why do the guns have to look like they were bought at the dollar store? More »
Weapons
DIY Paintball Turret Keeps Kids Away By Firing 38 Paintballs Per Second
9:00AM Jack Loftus | I just saw Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino for the first time the other day. This DIY paintball turret would have made the ending… different. More »
Robots
Low Cost Robot On Wheels Can Spy Baddies, Paint Them to Death
6:40AM Jesus Diaz | ROMP–or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform–is a poor man’s version of an iRobot battlefield bot. Instead of fancy tracks and miniaturised sensors, these ROMPs seem more like sophisticated all-terrain RC cars rigged with consumer cameras. Until you meet the older brother, of course, the weaponised WROMP with its big gun on top. In the words of its creator, Chris Rogers: More »
Entertainment
MythBusters Build a 2100-Barrel Paintball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa, Instantly
11:20AM John Herrman | In a presentation made at Nvidia’s NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 2100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if not slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively. More »
Weapons
Soldiers in Iraq Get ‘Paintball Guns on Steroids’
1:15AM Adam Frucci | Apparently, the new weapon against insurgents in Iraq is a paintball gun. Mind you, it’s a paintball gun that uses paintballs full of a mixture of paint and the brittle metal bismuth, and it’s a paintball gun that fires at 900 PSI compared to the standard 300-500 PSI, but it’s a paintball gun all the same. More »
Weapons
EMT Paintball Sentry Turret Feels No Pain(tballs)
1:00AM Mark Wilson | Sure, you could dress up in full camo, pad your body in all the vulnerable places and crawl around in muggy, midsummer heat. Or, you could sit in A/C while pwning all those suckers. This wireless EMT Paintball Sentry Turret allows you to do just that, as long as you’re within range of its A/V feed. More »
Vehicles
Guy Builds Nazi Tiger Tank, Invades Michigan
7:30AM Jesus Diaz | A Rommel-wannabe from Kettering University in Flint, Michigan, has built a fully working, 1:2 scale version of the Tiger I 56.9-tonne heavy tank used by the Wehrmacht in World War II. Not happy with that, he drives his amazing creation—Guderian-style—on the road, with a “yellow triangle” on the back. The thing is so menacing that his neighbours called the police, thinking he was planning to take over Poland. Or Detroit. It could have gone either way. More »
Robots
Gepetto Robot: Good at Paintball, Bad at Wii
1:10AM Mark Wilson | While we’re impressed by the technology behind military robots, it can be depressing when you realise that they’re actually being produced to maim and kill. This paintball robot “Gepetto” gets rid of such guilt. And, as you’ll see this video, it’s a lot funnier when a robot turns on its master to cause moderate levels of pain rather than death. Hit the video at 1:15 to watch a grown man curl up like a sissy as his children laugh in the background. Then, to watch the same robot trained for Wiimote control, hit the jump. More »
Vehicles
