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Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle

Posted by Soulskill on from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.

Zothecula writes "Well, Patrick Priebe might have outdone himself with this one. In the past, the German cyberpunk weapons-maker has brought us such creations as a wrist-mounted mini-crossbow, a laser-sighted rotary-saw-blade-shooting crossbow, and a flame-throwing glove. His latest nasty futuristic device? A video game-inspired electromagnetic weapon, called the Gauss Rifle."

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  1. Re:Rail gun ? by Antipater · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. A coilgun and a railgun are different. The fact that a lot of sci-fi describes the physics of coilguns but calls them railguns causes a lot of misconceptions. But it's pretty simple, seeing as one uses coils and the other uses rails (who'da thunkit?).

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