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A Firecracker-Launching Slingshot: Start the New Year With a Bang 65

Posted by Soulskill from the don't-try-this-at-home-kids dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Joerg Sprave is at it again. This time, in order to bring in the New Year, he's got something with a bit more bang to it: a firecracker-launching slingshot. Being German, Joerg has built a slingshot that will accommodate the largest legal firecracker in that country. '2 grams of black powder in a tight cardboard "cigar" make a pretty loud bang! In order to make these bangs more spectacular, it is desirable to shoot them as high into the air as possible. A special slingshot crossbow has been designed, chambered for the strongest legal firecrackers. The weapon is a breech loader, and an integrated storm lighter allows the shooter to light the fuse when the weapon is all ready for the shot. The weapon launches the firecracker with tremendous force. The blunt object easily crashes through a moving card board box, and — equipped with a wooden tip — even goes in all the way into a block of ballistic gelatin.' His two videos are available on YouTube: part 1, part 2." This is the same gentleman who made a slingshot that launches machetes.

Comment Re:Great... BUT (Score 1) 333

by teh31337one (#40161797) Attached to: LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display

High res panels for monitors aren't too hard to come across, and getting an Achieva / catleap / shiimian (sp?) will get you the same panel as an Apple Cinema display at 1/3rd of the cost.

As for laptop screens, Asus Zenbook UX31A with the 1080p IPS screen even though it is glossy :(, or the 900p _matte_ PLS screen in Samsung Series 9 13" are the standard to beat for me.

Comment Great... BUT (Score 1) 333

by teh31337one (#40149651) Attached to: LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display

AMOLED screens are where the future is. Samsung saw this, and invested £££/$$$ into it many years ago, and are now in a position to reap the benefits of it.

Although Super LCD 2 panels look really nice too (HTC One X. I'd say it beats the "retina" display in iPhone4/S)

Comment Re:How about (Score 4, Informative) 151

by teh31337one (#39911379) Attached to: Unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way Is Fun

Sorry, the web page you have requested is not available through Virgin Media.

Virgin Media has received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement.

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Comment Wonder how iPhone idiots will react to this? (Score 5, Funny) 162

by teh31337one (#39620655) Attached to: Facebook To Buy Instagram For $1 Billion

Here's their reaction to Instagram on android: http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/blog/404116/instagram-for-android

More here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%23!/AndroidAGram

And my personal favourites:

The Bad Guy @DamnLes
Apple needs to stop whoever is converting their programs.. Now android have temple run and instagram.. its not special to have an iphone

Michael @Periphereality
@DamnLes I agree they need to stop the guy who keeps converting the iPhone apps! It should be illegal isn't it against copywright?!1

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