Weapons
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A Clever Trick Lets Nerf’s Newest Blaster Shoot A Seemingly Endless Stream Of Darts
In New York next month the toymakers of the world will be showing off everything the kids in your life will be begging you for later this year. But ahead of Toy Fair 2018, Nerf has given us a sneak peek at a couple of new blasters it’s introducing, including one that helps solve the…
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This Mind-Bending Archer Fires Arrows That Change Direction In Mid-Air
Video: Archer Lars Andersen doesn’t post a lot of videos to his YouTube channel. But when he does, it’s to show off a mind-melting new trick he’s mastered, such as getting arrows to change direction mid-flight so that he can hit targets hidden behind obstacles that he can’t actually see.
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Artificially Intelligent Drones Become Terrifying Killing Machines In Dystopian Short Film
In preparation for this week’s UN Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, Switzerland, the Future of Life Institute has released a disturbing sci-fi short that shows what might happen if we fail to place an international moratorium on autonomous killing machines.
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R2-D2 Goes Evil, A Gremlin To Call Your Own, And More Of The Best Toys Of The Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, our regular weekly roundup of all the toys you’ll want to blow your paycheck on, instead of buying groceries, paying rent, or other more responsible purchases. This week we’ve got an Imperial entry in Sphero’s line of interactive droids, a cartoon version of Boba Fett, and a bunch of New…