The Super Soakers of yore were precision weapons. Small. Thin, accurate squirts. A continuous aquatic laser beam. No more. The Hydro Cannon acts just like it sounds – like a big arse cannon of water. It’s a crude, brutish instrument. More »
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.
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]
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]
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]
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.
This dude, for some unholy reason, owns every Super Soaker ever. Every. One. I mean, are these things even valuable? I don’t see how they could be because I can’t imagine anyone else being insane enough to care about some 1988 special edition Super Soaker. How does he explain his “hobby” to dates, assuming he’s ever gone out on one? “Yes, I am a grown man and I collect water guns. I have enough to fill up an entire garage, and I’m seriously in debt because of it. But hey, it’s totally worth it, right? Perhaps you’d like to come over and… hey, where are you going? You didn’t finish your Quarter Pounder!” Click for a bigger version of the picture. [Electro^Plankton via Geekologie] More »
