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T-Shirt Cannon
SnakeStu writes "If you thought the T-shirts at ThinkGeek were cool, imagine them flying 160 feet through the air (courtesy of Crawford International Theatrical Corporation [CITC])."
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Isn't this what killed Maude Flanders on the Simpsons?
Well that'll certainly improve the rate at which I can get dressed of a morninng....
It looks like it would be fun for the first ten minutes, but who really needs these other than emcees at basketball games?
Children, please be careful. Specifically, don't put frogs in them, and don't ever look down the barrel of one! (by choice)1 870788
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/bizarre/
are endless!
"This unit includes everything you need to launch soft items further and faster. The 2? X 23? PVC holds big surprises for your audience and creates lots of attention. Other soft items besides your rolled up T-Shirts are Nerf Balls, Puff Balls, confetti, streamers, advertising leaflets, hot dogs, feathers, SnoBiz® or other snow flake products, rose pedals, balloons (uninflated), etc."
I was just thinking to myself the other day... wouldn't it be nice if I could pull these hot dogs and brats off of the grill and launch them onto a plate in the house?
Didn't Maud Flanders teach us that shooting T-Shirts can be deadly?
When I die I hope FANdumanium will do a 21 T-Shirt Salute.
News for nerds, stuff that matters! Stuff like 64-bit cpus and the matrix and.... t-shirt.. launching?
If it's new, can it really be improved?
Karma: Non-Heinous
At just $1,400 this thing is a steal. Now I can launch all of those t-shirts I've wanted to hurl...wait a second..WTF do I need this for again.
I'll just stick to my good old spudlauncher (http://www.idahospudfire.com/main.htm)
Sig:
I'm not the best programmer, and I'm not the best basketball player;
But I'm the best basketball palyer on my programming team;
and I'm the best programmer on my basketball team.
Congratulations, both of you can read the story department: "in-memoriam-maude-flanders".
Micheal beat you to it.
Ever been to a hockey game? how about a monster truck rally? Do you know what football is? I've seen these for years and also in use! ohhh.
"Other soft items besides your rolled up T-Shirts are Nerf Balls, Puff Balls, confetti, streamers, advertising leaflets, hot dogs, feathers..."
HOT DOGS?
Is that really how you want your hot dog served to you?
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
They use these things all the time a kings games. Though personally I prefer the old method where they'd have to scantly clad girls hold one of those slingshot gizmos while the mascot loaded a t-shirt and shot it into the crowd. It didn't have the range but damn-it looks are important. ;-)
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
This will simplify doing my laundry. Instead of washing my shirts, I can blow them over the fence into my neighbor's yard. Or across the street. At 160' range, I can probably fling them over the freeway. How wide is a freeway?
I wonder if I can use this for my old socks as well? That would be handy.
What if life is just a side effect of some other process and God has no idea we exist?
The peeps at JavaOne(SM) used these things to shoot shirts into the crowds of developers. Real neat, but I fail to see why this is posted on /.
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Then again, I fail to see why a lot of things are posted on
Now maybe if some busty blondes were operating the shirt canons...
Dear Dr. Zaius,
Regarding the new devices we uncovered... I see these as the perfect tool in which to launch nets to catch those pesky humans. While the original design was not intended for this we believe it will be trivial to adjust the units.
Current technologies are begining to waiver in effectiveness and just last week we had one rude human scream out some babble along the lines of "You damned dirty apes".
Thanks,
Dr. Itchy
Human Catching Services
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
I doubt it, but if you pointed it at the ground and jumped you could do a Shirt-Propelled Jump.
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MTX Audio shot out T-shirts at the 1997 CEMA show using a gas powered cannon. Am I supposed to be impressed?
put me in the shirt when I'm shot with it(like the Jetsons) then you would have something. Nothing like getting dressed in .5 seconds.
At the United Center in Chicago, they fire tee shirts up from the court area during Bulls and Blackhawk games, and we've gotten them flying into our top tier -skybox-. This is not new technology!
50 comments, and 25 of them are about the Simpsons. And you know what the sad part is? Not one of them has spelled "Maude Flanders" name right.
;) ;)
Remember, boys: It's M-A-U-D-E.
Not:
Mad (personal favorite)
Mod
Maud
I tell you. Get killed off by a T-Shirt cannon and all respect is gone...
"...you can steal my woman, but you ain't done nuthin' smart."
We cannot allow a t-shirt cannon gap!
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If someone is interested in a cheaper solution (or to make thier own) see here
The also have some really cool stuff with machined aluminum potato cannons using propane and oxygen!
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
Other soft items besides your rolled up T-Shirts are Nerf Balls, Puff Balls, confetti, streamers, advertising leaflets, hot dogs, feathers, SnoBiz® or other snow flake products, rose pedals, balloons (uninflated), etc.
Good lord, they've come up with something worst than browser pop-ups...
(yeah the hot dogs would hurt too).
Is this an AD???
/. would i have seen this article? or would it have been thrown out with the banners?
I didnt see any how to? just a "where to buy"
If I subscribed to
WHAT THE HELL?
moo.
But it IS new!
And improved!
Says so right there!
I am NOT a man!
I am a free number!
It occurred to me that the launching tube is made out of PVC. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't PVC pipe usually used for drainage applications, and thus not suited for high-pressures? And thus, couldn't the pipe (theoretically) shatter and explode? I certainly wouldnt want to be holding that thing anywhere near my crotch when it fires...
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Oh, how I wish I had Maude points right now... ;)
Maude parent up!
I am not quite sure about US, but, if you are living in UK or other countries with similar law, you may need a gun license to operate this.
Usually, a gun is defined as a device which can fire a projectile/bullet with an energy of greater than 2J measured at the muzzle.
Assuming the weight of a T-shirt is 40 g, the max height it reaches is 50m, ignoring all the loss due to friction/air resistance, the min energy is mgh=0.04*9.81*50=19.6J...
Take care!
you insensitive claude!
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So let me get this straight... a frog (a soft, squishy animal) was shot out of a potato gun, and broke a kid's face (a hard, bony face).
Here's what I want to know: what did the frog look like?
a local Philly radio station tested out the deleterious effects of such a device on one of their associate producers. Grab a look here
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
If you thought the T-shirts at ThinkGeek were cool-
;)
Well I guess I'm out.
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