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Overclocked Flashlight For Burning Down Christmas Trees

Maglite parts + Metal reflector + Osram Sylvania bulb overclocked at 80 times its regular luminosity + 12 x 1200mV NiMH batteries = Burn baby burn! Yes, the video doesn’t show a burning Christmas tree. But, would you even doubt its capability of doing so?

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Jet-Powered Fire Extinguisher, aka World’s Biggest Super Soaker

What do you get when you mix a team of Hungarian engineers, an old Russian tank with its gun turrets removed, two turbines from a MiG-21 fighter jet and lots and lots of water? You get the ultimate fire extinguisher powered by fighter jet turbines! The vehicle will prove extremely useful in putting out oil-fires that would [...]

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LEGO Flamethrower!

There’s LEGO Crossbow and LEGO Rubberband Chaingun, how can we not have a LEGO Flamethrower! Thanks to LEGO enthusiast Mark Puustinen for sharing the flamethrower he built. “This homemade LEGO flamethrower is completely built with LEGO toy building bricks. Only thing not LEGO is a piece of string and a refill bottle of butane gas which [...]

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Apple Joins Dell. Recalling 1.8 Million Batteries

As we know, Dell isn’t the only one using Sony laptop batteries that have potential of exploding in your face. Our favorite Apple iBooks and PowerBooks are just as “hot”. Apple announced today that it’ll be recalling 1.8 million batteries that are identified as potentially hazardous - less than half of Dell’s 4.1 million. 1.1 million [...]

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Build Your Own Flamethrower with WD40 and SuperSoaker

It’s very simple really. Just pour WD40 instead of water into your Super Soaker, then burn something at the nozzle and flame away! Everyone should have one on standby to burn down thieves.

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Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Laptop Batteries. Largest Recall in History.

News of exploding Dell laptops have been popping up every now and then for the past few weeks. What appear to be mere mishaps of a handful of consumers turn out to be defective batteries affecting at least 4.1 million laptops. With today’s announcement for a major recall, it marks what is said to be “the [...]

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