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Guy Fights Off Pranksters With Night Vision Goggles and Supersoaker Filled With Piss
6:50PM Brian Lam | Some guy got tired of kids wrapping his house in toilet paper every night. So he borrowed some mil spec night vision goggles, filled a super soaker with pee and drenched them when they showed. More »
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Super Soaker T-Shirt is Just Super
6:20AM Mark Wilson | For those of you who’ve finally repressed Frucci’s homoerotic slow-mo watergun facial montage, we’d like to offer a piece of apparel to commemorate the occasion (and bring back painful memories). By ReThink clothing, the Super Soaker T-shirt gives a metallic sheen to the classic water weapon, putting it on aesthetic par with something far more deadly. Like a Super Soaker 2000, or something. [ReThink via Tcritic] More »
Toys
Evolution Of the Super Soaker
11:01AM Matt Hickey | It’s the 4th of July weekend, which means sun for most of us and all kinds of fun outdoor activities, many of them including squirt guns. If you’re hardcore, you use nothing but the Super Soaker, which was first introduced in 1989 and have evolved into personal water cannons that seem capable of blasting holes in concrete. Hyperbole aside, they’ve come a long way, and iSoaker has a very cool interactive, clickable chart showing the evolution of the worlds most popular water gun. Which one was your favourite? [iSoaker] More »
Design
Super Soaker Coffee Table
8:20AM Jason Chen | Jellio’s Candy Table doesn’t actually have candy inside (which would be tooth decayingly fantastic), but it does have super soaker-like squirt guns. Not the new, lame super soakers, but the old simple ones from the early ’90s. We’re not sure if it’s actually a real Super Soaker or just a replica, but in either case, you get a coffee table’s worth of them for US$350. That’s actually not too bad for a coffee table; especially one that you can use to hydrate yourself. [Jellio via Boing Boing Gadgets via Dvice] More »
Gadgets
Super Soaker Inventor Working on Way To Harvest Heat From Humans Matrix-Style
7:30AM Jason Chen | Who didn’t like Super Soakers as a kid? You pump it a lot, it builds pressure, then it shoots liquid. In many ways, they were very similar to humans, which is why Lonnie Johnson, its inventor, is looking for ways to use harvest waste heat from humans to power a tiny Johnson system. The full name is the Johnson Thermoelectric Energy System, and it could be up to 60% efficient (standard car engines are only about 30% efficient) at the right temperature. More »
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