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Posts Tagged ‘fire’

The Prometheus Device

Everett Bradford has created a device that aspiring superheroes and supervillains alike will be drooling over: The Prometheus Device. Put simply, it allows you to cast fireballs from your hand. This is the kind of thing I expect Mickey Rourke to be sporting as Whiplash in Iron Man 2.

From Everett’s YouTube page:
Prometheus is version 3 of the Pyro [...]

Disturbing Video of Robot Eating Human

Okay, not really. This rescue bot is remote controlled by the Tokyo Fire Department (TFD) to extract disaster victims from areas too hazardous for human rescue workers.
But admit it, it kinda looks like it could be used for more nefarious human cleanup…

Fire at the Griffith Observatory and Nerdvana was THERE!

Last week there was a 5-acre brush fire in Griffith Park, immediately West of the famous LA landmark, the Griffith Observatory. It being a bastion of nerd-knowledge, my geeky-sense started tingling and I rushed over to get the scoop, shitty digital camera and press pass in hand. Here are a few vids I got of [...]