ToysToysJakks Pacific Toilet Paper Blasters Skid ShotToysJakks Pacific Toilet Paper Blasters Skid ShotJakks Pacific Toilet Paper Blasters Skid ShotWHAT IS IT?
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It will pair nicely with Nerf's First Order Stormtrooper blasters.
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There is an armory with blasters and pilots uniforms in cages.
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Given they're just toys, Nerf's blasters aren't really known for accuracy.
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Blasters are explosives experts similar to those used in avalanche control.
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A door opens and more Stormtroopers fill the hallway, firing blasters.
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For music on the session, we started bringing ghetto blasters around.
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Yes, that would work but there aren't many blasters in the trailer.
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Both blasters are quickly reloaded using over-sized buttons on the bottom.
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No patterns, textures or special lighting (for instance IR blasters) are needed.
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Amazon Fire TV Cube 4K HDR Streamer with Alexa and IR Blasters
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He has his two blasters, a scatter rifle and, yes, his jetpack.
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The hero has a sword, but also a variety of futuristic blasters.
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Both blasters feature IR emitters and detectors inside a protective dome on top.
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It is packed with action, blasters, and huge battles on a huge scale.
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The blasters will be available online July 16, with retail availability next month.
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Panasonic (National) RX-A5 I don't want to collect any more ghetto blasters.
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It also gives the Wasp wings and blasters that Ant-Man never received.
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He took out Mei's endothermic blasters and started firing off icicles toward Liviere.
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The laser blasters in "Star Wars" are no longer a thing of science fiction.
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At first glance, the blasters don't look too different from your typical Nerf shooter.
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Click here to view original GIFSome people take their Nerf dart blasters very seriously.
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The important takeaway was that IR blasters are in some way disastrous and evil.
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Enjoy Nerf Fest 2018 with discounts on Nerf blasters, accessories, and more See Details
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But have you ever wondered what those blasters could do to a hot dog?
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That was a thing I did with a lot of my ghetto blasters—customization.
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Nilay, take it away: Why can't the TV industry get rid of IR blasters?
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But the new blasters come with a catch: DRM for darts, it sounds like!
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Luckily, we were all armed with blasters at this point, which helped us defend ourselves.
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Nerf will continue to sell blasters that fire darts and you can have your fill.
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Nitro blasters must be placed on a flat surface before foam cars can be launched.
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Mattel's BOOMco line already has the rights to turn Halo's iconic weapons into toy blasters.
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So what makes the Accustrike blasters—arriving sometime in the Spring of 2017—more accurate?
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And those are just two of the blasters available to pick up during Nerf Fest.
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And that's before you consider the Robomaster's built-in camera, dual blasters, and its programmability.
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Imagine the training scene from A New Hope, but with blasters instead of a lightsaber.
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So, Mando and Cara start training them with spears and blasters for one last battle.
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If, by now, you're thinking, "This is stupid," then the Nitro blasters are not for you.
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But a weapon system—essentially, infrared blasters and detectors on each kart—can also hinder speed.
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When you see a cabinet of blasters, you can pick one up and get to shooting.
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Meanwhile, the S1's turret holds its built-in first-person camera and two different blasters.
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We'll know more about both blasters when Nerf shows them off at Toyfair next month.[Nerf]
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The result is an ad-hoc human wave attack, a rolling riot of bodies and blasters.
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Photo Credit Photos: Nerf NERF HERDERS UNITE Unleash your inner child with these six new Nerf blasters.
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Ride & Go Seek, Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters, a Haunted Mansion as well as Tokyo DisneySea.
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For a cliff face like this, the department might hire blasters, but will certainly bring out scalers.
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And we haven't even gotten to the part where you find some blasters and fuck shit up.
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Runners will also pass through a bubble wash — a foamy storm — and be drenched by water blasters.
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IR blasters are a legendarily dumb technology with a host of issues — commands can get interrupted by sunlight shining in from a window, commands often misfire, and the IR blasters on the Cube need to have some kind of line of sight to the devices you want to control.
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Details were scant, but the days of universal remote "macros" and infrared blasters may soon be behind us.
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The Imperials advance on the Falcon, firing their blasters as they dart forward, moving from cover to cover.
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Now, who do we need to speak to about getting blasters recognised by the International Shooting Sport Federation?
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A pair of blasters can ride along up front to keep them in easy reach for quick attacks.
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It has two blasters, one which shoots beams and light, and the other which shoots small gel beads.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)Both blasters use the same technology to shoot at an opponent, and detect a hit.
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At $30 for the Alphapoint and $50 for the Deltaburst, these aren't the cheapest blasters in Nerf's current lineup.
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It's set to be the first of a series of Nerf blasters inspired by the game, according to Hasbro.
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When the zombie apocalypse finally hits, blasters alone won't be enough to keep the brain-hungry hordes at bay.
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There are blasters and swords, sure; but note, and revel in, the absence of Facebook or selfies or smartphones.
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It nails details as small as the way Stormtroopers move with their blasters at shoulder level, prepared to fire.
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The Air Force projects that it will be able to equip its warplanes with these blasters sometime after 2030.
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Even without a battery-powered motor whirring away inside, Nerf's mechanical blasters aren't exactly silent when being reloaded and fired.
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Last summer we went hands on with Prime Time Toys' Dart Zone Adventure Force Commandfire and Quantum blasters and despite being a company much smaller than Hasbro, we were surprised to find it producing toys that outperformed Nerf's dart blasters while introducing innovative new features—and doing it at a much cheaper price point.
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Click here to view original GIFThey're fun, but Nerf's blasters, even the most powerful ones, aren't known for their impeccable accuracy.
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Lower the ramp and check the blasters are secured, then arm the spring-loaded shooters and seal the hull for takeoff.
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Unless you're Nerf-obsessed, do yourself a favor and check out what Prime Time Toys is doing with blasters these days.
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Don't get me wrong — I love lightsabers, blasters, the Force and loud explosions in space as much as the next nerd.
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While these three aren't the full extent of Nerf's 2017 arsenal expansion, each adds a new dimension to what blasters can do.
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Instead, the Nitro blasters are more of a new spin on the classic Hot Wheels stunt tracks, minus you know, the tracks.
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Click here to view original GIFOne of the things that makes toy dart blasters fun is that they can't really hurt you.
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Hasbro's Nerf brand certainly makes a high-quality dart for its toy blasters, but they're also more expensive than third-party alternatives.
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IR blasters have limitations and can sometimes get tripped up, but they allow the Cube to do some genuinely useful things already.
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In "On the Basis of Sex," Jones one again plays a rebel female, but the battles are fought with books, not blasters.
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Substitute throwing rocks at other rocks for shooting at debris with blasters, and you've got yourself an accurate depiction of bored troops.
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It sounds complicated, but in practice, it's actually a satisfying feeling, and I always prefer toy blasters that don't run on heavy batteries.
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That's all you can really expect from IR blasters, but companies like Caavo are trying to do more with on-screen machine learning.
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The third quarter saw a 3% bump in sales, buoyed by purchases of L.O.L. Surprise packs, Marvel toys, Barbie dolls and Nerf blasters.
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MacFarlane plays the captain of a spaceship and crew in uniforms who shoot blasters that would blend right in at a Trekkie convention.
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And if the rebel forces hide out of sight, open the storage container, grab the blasters and play out your own mini urban battles!
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When shooting at stacks of paper cups, or trying to blast your action figures, Nerf's dart-firing blasters are still the way to go.
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Everything, from corridors of ships to the weapons, feel incredibly accurate to the films, down to the subtle scratches and chips on the blasters.
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And so it was with great interest last month that I read Nilay's review of Caavo: the IR blaster to end all IR blasters.
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Rather than featuring Nerf's traditional foam bullets, these blasters will fire off soft, squishy projectiles, acting a bit like a less aggressive paintball gun.
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If you ask 13-year-old Keanu Snyder what he wants for his birthday, he won't tell you about Nerf blasters or Playstation games.
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There are plenty of other blasters to choose from, accessories like dart packs or masks, and even a few extras like a Nerf football.
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Microsoft's Xbox One is essentially a hack on set-top boxes with a mix of IR blasters and UI built on top of them.
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AND FINALLY Blast away Nerf ball blasters are fun and all, but you have to stop the fun to reload them all the time.
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Beskar, or Mandalorian iron, an incredibly rare substance that's used to make true Mandalorian armor, which can famously deflect blasters and even lightsaber attacks.
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It could be the single most important change to Nerf blasters in years, since range has always been a limiting factor in Nerf wars.
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Trial of Combat is easily the biggest draw: using the lightsaber, you slash enemies, counter attacks, activate unlockable force abilities, and reflect shots from blasters.
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And like the original Nerf Rival blasters, it will be available in red or blue so it's easier to know who is on your team.
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They also work with any blaster that's compatible with the brand's Elite darts, but Nerf is also introducing four new blasters under the Accustrike branding.
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The gaming company announced a partnership with toy giant Hasbro this week that while give the world a Fortnite-branded Monopoly game and Nerf Blasters.
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Toy swords, telescopes and blasters sold in the arena aisles and corridors before show time change colors during the performance, based on the story line.
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The other cool thing about the Telefunken was just the white part of it, because so many ghetto blasters I had were silver or black.
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"There are no scientific studies saying abrasive blasters are subject to any increased or any incidents of beryllium related diseases from abrasive blasting," he said.
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Nerf blasters are designed to fire a very specific size and shape of foam dart each time, and even then you'll still get the occasional misfire.
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That's the idea behind the new Accustrike line, which comprises four new blasters and, more importantly, a dart that's been totally redesigned from tip to tail.
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I often prefer Nerf's spring-loaded blasters over its motorized ones when I'm looking for speed and distance, but I've found the Commandfire often outperformed both.
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Click here to view original GIFIn recent years, Nerf has added some gigantic blasters to its lineup, at times necessitating the need for a shoulder strap.
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URC is notorious for building the sort of fragile, complicated, only-installable-by-professionals products that fill the homes of rich people with overpriced IR blasters.
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Microsoft claims you'll get sub-millimeter precision without complex setups like IR blasters or in-room cameras — it's all in the headset and the controllers themselves.
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Would all this content be more innovative if it wasn't weighed down by the hefty legacy of lightsabers, blasters, the Force and loud explosions in space?
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Care Bears, My Little Pony, Nerf Blasters and the Masters of the Universe action figures, which feature He-Man and She-Ra, round out the list.
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I feel it's important to point out that neither of these blasters are quiet toys, however, which could be problematic for office play, or already frazzled parents.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)The Commandfire brought an innovative new feature to dart blasters, but the Quantum only introduces a few small improvements over Nerf's pricier Nemesis.
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So the $40 Nitro Duelfury Demolition set includes two spring-loaded blasters, two long-jump ramps, two rings of (fake) fire, and four foam cars to launch.
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Sometimes that leads to hilarious Alexa products like rings that listen to your whisper when you push a button on it, IR blasters, and Alexa party games.
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Weekly programming includes board games, crafts and a Tuesday "Chapter Blasters," where librarians read several chapters per week from longer books and then hold a lucky draw.
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It's always a one-or-the-other choice between the Staff's heals/buffs and the Blasters damage output, and the latter is really more of a last resort.
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It's functionality you typically only see with the new wave of toy blasters that fire tiny foam balls, but here it works with darts, and works surprisingly well.
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The company also notes that Bond will "listen" for the regular remote and track those changes, which is a helpful thing when working with IR and RF blasters.
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Click here to view original GIFDespite being made of plastic, Nerf's dart blasters look incredibly realistic and detailed—as long as you can ignore their garishly bright colors.
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I decided to try the Sony PS4 first, mainly because Star Wars Battlefront II had just been released and I felt I deep visceral need to shoot blasters.
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There are rules to consider: no full Jedi robes, nor face masks or toy weapons such as blasters and lightsabers (though some managed to sneak in the latter).
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Rediscovered by European fans, Mr. Burgess enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, recording albums with Dave Alvin of the Blasters and Garry Tallent of the E Street Band.
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So there's good reason to pre-order one of the blasters now, but as with any Kickstarted product, particularly those involving electronics and complicated manufacturing, it's always buyer beware.
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After powering up the blasters, the ammo reload button on the bottom of each weapon is used to select teams, which is indicated by a glowing light on top.
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Both blasters have loud sound effects that can't be muted, but the added force feedback features in the Deltaburst rifle are even louder, and quickly get a little grating.
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But unless you're absolutely loyal to the Nerf brand, you can save yourself quite a bit of money, without compromising your fun, with these Walmart-exclusive Adventure Force blasters.
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As Nerf rep loaded up the foam cars (there will be over 48 different designs and colorways) into the the Nitro blasters, she told me the designs are intentional.
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But there's nothing stopping Hasbro and Nerf from making blasters that only happen to look like they're from the Halo universe, which probably explains its new Alien Menace line.
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And then depending on if you're racing, battling, or doing something else, there will additional on-screen buttons for shooting the S1's blasters, activating power-ups, and more.
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The "feel" part is especially impressive, including heat from the planet's molten surface and the recoil from blasters as participants walk through in interactive adventure and mow down Stormtroopers.
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Nerf Rival Khaos MXVI-4000 BlasterDesigned to keep teenagers interested in the Nerf brand, the Rival blasters were easily one of the most exciting new toys released last year.
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The library keeps a wide array of books; recently acquired titles include Blasters' Handbook: A Manual Describing Explosives and Practical Methods of Use and The Freeway in the City.
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Bronce Henderson, who manages the Virginia-based EHS Abrasives LLC, said it doesn't cost any more money for blasters to switch to the recycled glass material his employer makes.
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There is a workaround if you really want to fire the foam cars without placing the blasters against a flat surface, you can just press the button on the bottom.
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Nerf has unveiled six new blasters available this fall—which means foam darts will soon start raining down on little noggins with greater accuracy, greater speed, and from longer distances.
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For safety (and legal) reasons the blasters come with limited power out of the box, but there's a thriving community of modders online who've found ways to give them more kick.
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But Nerf wants to change all that with a new line of blasters that simply fire tiny toy cars directly at a ramp, so you don't need any track at all.
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Chainsaw blasters have long been a staple of the post-apocalyptic landscape, but in order to be safe for kids, toy versions have always relied on imagination to make them work.
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Although more typically used to flatten hillsides into road cuts, blasters can also be brought in to step the entire hillside back if the engineers decide it's a hopelessly unstable mess.
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But most interesting is the Force Band's Combat Training Mode which allows the wearer to wield imaginary weapons like blasters and lightsabers with sound effects triggered by specific movements and gestures.
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As part of this collection, Hasbro is teaming up with US e-sports team TSM, one of the top professional gaming teams in the world to market the line of blasters.
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The laser shooting out of the glove's palm may not have the same visual oomph that Stark's blasters have in the movies, but come on, we don't have an arc reactor.
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Whether it's blasters, bleeping droids or the lightsaber, the level of detail that goes into each and every Star Wars film is key to the cult status the franchise has achieved.
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For the older films, when lightsabers, blasters, and ships were cobbled together with found parts and ingenuity, that meant tracking down the original items and handcrafting perfect replicas at incredible cost.
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The rule "imposed complex and costly regulations on abrasive blasters, despite no evidence of any beryllium-related illness in the history of the industry," it said in a statement to Reuters.
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Meanwhile, Hasbro will also make "Fortnite" Nerf Blasters — toy versions of weapons featured in the video game that do not yet have a scheduled release date, the company announced on Monday.
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But look a little closer and you'll notice that the Throttleshot Blitz (see below) looks like it's an upside down pistol and the rest of the blasters have a design that slants.
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Additionally, these toys seem much more... well, firearm-like than your standard Nerf blasters, especially considering Fortnite models its weapons after real-life guns like the FN-SCAR and IMI Desert Eagle.
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Luigi Mansion and Yo-Kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps and White Dog Squad are soon to be playable on Nintendo 3DS and you can be one of the first to play.
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Likewise, if you pre-order Yo-Kai Watch Blasters: Red Cat Corps and White Dog Squad, you can take home a super cute Jibanyan Multi-Case as part of the package deal.
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Nerf Rebelle Truepoint BlasterWith a $10 price point you'd assume the Rebelle Truepoint blaster would be as no frills as it gets as far as all the new Nerf Accustrike blasters go.
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When it's finished, guests at the Disney properties will be able to hop into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, fire the ship's blasters and get the vessel prepped to enter hyperspace.
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When a target is detected, the turret can automatically open, deploying a set of four Nerf-like blasters as its side extend, which have about 20 degrees of movement in all directions.
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Given how many Nerf fans hacked the original Rival blasters to be fully automatic, it's no surprise that Hasbro followed suit with an official model for those of us lacking any hacking skills.
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These include Spyhunter, Blasteroids, Championship Sprint, Defender, Defender II, Gauntlet, Gauntlet II, Joust, Joust 2, Marble Madness, Paperboy, Rampage, Road Blasters, Seven Twenty, Badlands, KLAX, SuperSprint, Timber, Toobin, Robron, Cyberball, Xybots, and Vindicators.
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Click here to view original GIFNerf's Rival blasters, which can fire small foam balls at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour, already make you a formidable opponent when office battles erupt.
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This sequel starts off with Thor's Hammer against Captain America's iconic shield and escalates to include disks from Tron: Legacy, Wilson from Castaway, batarangs, lightsabers, chainsaws, wands, blasters, and quite a bit more.
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But as soon as they hit store shelves, Nerf enthusiasts found ways to further improve the blasters, and one of the most popular DIY upgrades was converting the Zeus to be fully automatic.
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We've been doing this long enough that we want to keep it interesting and do more with it and make better music and memorable riffs, not just 30-second blasters all the time.
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Similarly, explosive workers, ordinance handlers, and blasters in the coal industry could use their sophisticated safety experience and obtain additional training to become commercial solar technicians and earn about 11% more on average.
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It's still a little box that combines an Echo Dot's functionality with a Fire TV, all capped with a bunch of IR blasters that can control other AV equipment in your living room.
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Every time someone on stage references a television show you've never heard of … Do eight ball blasters Combining a sit-up with a ball slam, modify this move by laying back on a bench.
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The two side blasters have their battery compartments trimmed off, as Cooper replaced the 18 D-sized batteries you'd normally need (six for each Nemesis) with a couple of larger-capacity rechargeable power cells.
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Designed to cater to a younger crowd — 5 years old and up as opposed to Nerf's traditional 8 and up — the new Nerf Nitro series basically mixes the company's signature blasters with Hot Wheels.
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All four sides of the "cube" house IR blasters that allow the device to communicate with and control everything in the average person's TV setup, from cable boxes to soundbars to A/V receivers.
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Guy Builds Home-Made Nerf Gun That&aposs Powerful Enough to Blast Foam Darts Right Through a CanOne of the things that makes toy dart blasters fun is that they can't really hurt you.
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The prominent cutout on top hides more than a selfie camera — it has a pair of infrared blasters that locate your face even in the dark and project a network of dots onto it.
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From there, he was guiding the enormous machine himself, making use of its blasters and cutting through the enemy's forces to meet with Saw Gerrera (played by Forest Whitaker, reprising his role from Rogue One).
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Out of the box, the Skid Shot requires a bit of assembly because compared to other toy blasters, it looks like a bit of an odd dock with contraptions hanging off it on all sides.
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When we heard Hasbro was working with Blizzard Entertainment to bring our favorite Overwatch characters' guns into the real world as foam-slinging blasters, we were tentatively excited — only to find they were glorified props.
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The Battle Racer is essentially a pedal-powered go-kart (with a handbrake for quick tactical stops) that also features multiple mounts and holsters for a wide variety of Nerf blasters and other foam weaponry.
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She has also made the case that Alexo is not just restricted to selling firearms-related apparel; the company promotes women's self-defense holistically and has featured models with pepper blasters, Tasers, and stun guns.
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Disney's concept art suggests the lounge will also be filled with cast members dressed as alien creatures, or maybe that's just what regular guests will look like after one too many Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters.
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As with the first Fire TV Cube, Engadget says it will have the same far field microphones, HDMI-CEC, and IR blasters — all reportedly at the same price as the current Fire TV Cube, $120.
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Announced just before the New York Toy Fair last year, Nerf's Rival blasters, which launched tiny foam balls at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour, were the biggest innovation in foam warfare in years.
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These included standard smart speaker functions like setting timers or controlling smart home devices, as well as built-in IR blasters which could let it control devices like TVs, similar to the Amazon Fire TV Cube.
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Here are three blasters you can unwrap early: the Raptorstrike, which uses Nerf's most accurate darts yet; the Twinshock, the first blaster to shoot two Mega darts at once, and the Modulus Regulator, which... well, it's dope.
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But like with Nerf's more traditional blasters that use foam darts, you'll be able to add additional Nitro foam cars to your stunt extravaganzas using refill packs that include six cars for $10, or three for $6.
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You have blasters and ships, you have families, you have faith and the Force," said Bernd Diemer, creative director at DICE on Battlefront II. "But for me what really ties it all together is this hero's journey.
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Hasbro's eliminated that hassle with its new Laser Ops Pro blasters; an updated version of laser tag that might feel like blasphemy to the Nerf name, but actually ends up being more fun than fighting with foam darts.
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Both blasters have streamlined the reloading process, but while the Nerf Infinus has you stuffing darts into a funnel, one-by-one, the Commandfire instead lets you quickly dump a handful of darts into a 40-shot hopper.
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Both blasters feature removable hoppers that can hold over 70 small foam rounds (the Quantum is compatible with Nerf's Rival ammo), they're both powered by six D-sized batteries, and they both have a heavy and intimidating heft.
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If just the thought of running into battle carrying three or four Nerf blasters leaves you breathless, the Battle Racer from Hauck Toys makes it easy to simply roll up with a heavy duty arsenal at the ready.
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Nerf blasters come with those bright color schemes as a way to catch the eye of little kids in a toy store, and because of government regulations preventing toy weapons from looking too much like the real thing.
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From the sounds of its blasters to the chirp it makes when you turn it on and even the booming voice that tells you when it's connecting to your phone, the Robomaster S1 isn't exactly an inconspicuous gadget.
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This is a puck-shaped device with 360-degree IR blasters dotting its outside perimeter, and which has one IR extender out (there's one in the box) for connecting devices held within a closed AV cabinet, for instance.
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Fortnite Monopoly and Nerf Blasters are coming soon And now it appears that the game has also inspired some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley's venture capital investment scene to commit huge sums to continue its success.
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It also offers a corrective to most TV shows, in which the method of helping a casualty is to run up and try to render first aid as bullets—or in this case, blasters—fly all around them.
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When Nerf introduced the "Elite" dart with its 75-foot range in 2012, and its 90-foot Elite XD* blasters in 2014, players scrambled to get an advantage over their foes whose darts didn't shoot nearly as far.
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With enough practice you can fire a spitball every three or four seconds, so don't expect to get the same rapid-fire speeds you'd get from automatic foam dart blasters that can often fire three or rounds every second.
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Available this summer, the Nitro series is an entire family of "stunt car blasters" running the gamut from the entry-level single-shot "Throttleshot Blitz" ($9.99) to the top-of-the-line, battery-powered and motorized "Motofury Rapid" ($49.99).
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Later this year, soundbars with Fire TV will gain support for Dolby Atmos, HDMI switching, far-field microphones for Alexa, and "device control" (which is presumably code for IR blasters like what's available with the Fire TV Cube now).
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Click here to view original GIFThere's no better example of bigger being better than this devastating 1,200-round Nerf blaster made by combining three Rival Nemesis MXVII-10K blasters and a plastic storage container that serves as a massive ammo hopper.
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Along with existing drugs tied to particular mutations, and a newly emerging class of pharmaceuticals that mobilise the immune system against tumours, master-regulator blasters could provide a third form of precise molecular attack upon this most feared of diseases.
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Through its dedicated mobile app, users have access to other activities such as using the Force to hunt down holocrons, or pretending to wield blasters and lightsabers, complete with authentic sound effects, with the Force Band strapped to their wrist.
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But ahead of Toy Fair 2018, Nerf has given us a sneak peek at a couple of new blasters it's introducing, including one that helps solve the most annoying part of waging a dart battle—having to stop to reload.
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The Nerf N-Strike Elite Infinus is also one of the company's first blasters to feature red, green, and yellow LED status lights letting you know when it's ready to fire, ready to reload, or if a jam has occurred.
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It's important to remember that when George Lucas made Star Wars back in the '2150s, it was a fairly low-budget film, and everything from the X-wings to the blasters were made from cannibalized model kits and other found parts.
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Crack vials littered schoolyards, and police officers were still ''giving freedom of the streets to the drug dealers, the gangs, the prostitutes, the drinkers and the radio blasters,'' Bratton later wrote with one of his advisers in the conservative quarterly City Journal.
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A few years ago Nerf decided the best way to lure teens away from paintball and back to its foam darts was with a new line of blasters capable of firing tiny foam balls at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour.
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The hero blaster gun, used by Harrison Ford in the 1983 movie "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi," is one of two non-firing hero blasters used in the movie and is known in the "Star Wars" universe as a DL-44.
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"This is believed to be one of four hero Han Solo blasters made for and used in Return of the Jedi ," the auction house explained , adding that one of the four fired blanks, and the other three didn&apost fire at all.
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Until she summoned a lightsaber in The Force Awakens, leading women in the Star Wars movies had never wielded the saga's signature weapon; Padmé and Leia, in the few instances they were allowed to fight, had to make do with puny blasters.
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And when he welcomed Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto to the stage, and they larked around for a few seconds with some weird blasters from Kingdom Battle, the joyousness that these veterans of gaming were feeling was writ large on their faces and body language.
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The party was Mr. Cuomo's idea, and the hosts include an eclectic mix of over a dozen organizations, ranging from unions, such as Local 29 of the Blasters, Drillrunners and Miners Union, to arts institutions, like the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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The accuracy and hit detection is better, there are some nice (albeit loud) sound effects, and when you connect the blasters to a free accompanying mobile app, there's stat and performance tracking that leaves little doubt as to who's earned bragging rights in a battle.
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Nerf's motorized blasters also use a double trigger system that only spins up the motors when you're ready to fire, but the Commandfire instead employs a basic on/off switch that chews through batteries faster unless you're constantly turning it on and off as needed.
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See, as far as I ever understood it, Nilay's lifelong grudge against IR blasters was never about IR. It was the fact that a dumb IR blaster can lose its place when switching sources and changing channels, and therefore its carefully programmed commands become nonsense.
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Ahead of the the 2016 New York Toy Fair next month, Hasbro gave Toyland an exclusive first-look at four of its upcoming Nerf blasters that will eventually be hitting store shelves in the fall, just in time to add to your holiday wish list.
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Now with the new cardboard Labo VR Kit, on top of adding a whole new dimension of gaming to the Switch's arsenal, with designs and materials to make cardboard birds, elephants, blasters, and more, Nintendo's third foray into cardboard is its most ambitious yet.
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As for the S1's blasters, in normal use, they fire green light that can be detected by the sensors on the side of the bot so you can use them to host your own little RC battle royale (which is something I highly suggest).
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But after surviving the quantum realm in the original film, Scott is sent back in with Pym's daughter, Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) — outfitted as the Wasp, complete with wings and blasters — to rescue her mother and Pym's long-missing wife, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer).
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Amazon's Fire TV Cube is considerably more expensive at $24, though the hike up in price comes from its extra features, including its ability to work like a smart speaker and to control other devices in your entertainment system with its built-in IR blasters.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)Despite designs that often make them look like they're part of the US military's advanced arsenal, Nerf's dart-blasters are just toys, and as a result their performance often disappoints compared to other mock weapons like paintball guns or Airsoft rifles.
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Right now, you can buy hundreds of knockoff Nerf Elite darts for just a few dollars online and use them in dozens of different blasters from both Hasbro and competitors, whereas it'll cost $10 to get just 20 of these new Ultra darts instead.
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There's almost too much good stuff in here—from new bad guy Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) walking around the Death Star to heroes Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) ducking blasters on the beach—but here are some of our favorite moments:
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As the title advertises, the second film pairs Scott -- after explaining his absence from "Infinity War," and the fallout from "Captain America: Civil War" --with Pym's daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly), who has her own micro-tech outfit with a few upgrades, including wings and sting-like blasters.
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Mr. Vincenti and two other speakers, Ms. McCoy-Coleman and the Orangetown animal control officer, Richard Padilla, recommended steps to take with coyotes: Yell at them, run at them, carry umbrellas to wave at them and use ultrasonic, dog-frequency sound blasters — called Dazers — or air horns.
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"NERF blasters are truly the best way to reenact 'Fortnite battles' outside of the game, and we can't wait to see our fans create Fortnite stories all of their own with the iconic accessories seen in the game, or by bringing the battle offscreen with Monopoly."
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The goal posts and the ball are each equipped with IR blasters and IR sensors that can detect when a goal has been scored, and to prevent cheaters from trying to rack up points by just driving their car into the net, as the sensors can distinguish the two.
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The Alexa voice remote for Fire TVs adds a bunch of new and useful features to the streaming device — specifically, the ability to directly control things like power, volume, and mute on your TV without having to fumble around for another remote, thanks to the inclusion of IR blasters.
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But because of the inherent limitations of the technologies Amazon is forced to use (HDMI CEC on your TV, IR blasters for everything else) to make all of these disparate devices and services play nice with each other, there are stumbles now and then that tarnish the experience.
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Modern design and manufacturing processes have made it easier for smaller companies to compete with giant corporations, and while it's not hard to spot the compromises that allow these new Adventure Force blasters to undercut Nerf when it comes to price, they don't cut corners when it comes to performance.
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Unlike most rubber band blasters that only fire a single shot every time you squeeze the trigger or require a drive mechanism to make them fully automatic, Davis' Arcus uses the energy from the loaded elastics to spin the barrel and automatically fire shot after shot until it's empty. Brilliant.
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" By "everything" they meant: "lady fingers, fuzz buttles, snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do das, crap flappers, whistlin' bung-holes, no spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, and just one single whistlin' kitty chaser.
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The Ant-Man and The Wasp trailer makes it clear that Hope Van Dyne's the Wasp is just as good, if not better, at this superhero stuff than Ant-Man, at least if flying, taking down bad guys with martial arts, and using blasters are the signs of great superhero-ing (they are).
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I tested the Dart Zone PRO MK-21 against two of Nerf's manually primed blasters: the $21 N-Strike Elite Accustrike Alphahawk which uses redesigned darts for better speed and accuracy, and the $1803 Nerf Rival Apollo XV-2180, which fires tiny foam balls at speeds of up to 2180 miles per hour.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)And it's not all sparkly sequins and shiny tech either because the Mate 20 duo also sports an IP68 rating for dust and water-resistance and Huawei's new Kirin 980 processor and even built-in IR blasters for people who like being able to use their phone as a TV remote.
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Unlike a steep, towering Hot Wheels track that can only launch tiny toy cars at ramps and obstacles from one direction, Nerf's new Nitro stunt car blasters can be easily repositioned to send cars racing towards them from any direction, making it easier to re-attempt stunts again and again until you get it perfect.
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If you can remember all of the destruction you caused (and had to hide from your parents) while playing with your die-cast toy cars when you were younger, as a responsible adult now you'll probably agree that Nerf's new foam toy cars and blasters are a clever, and safer, upgrade to a classic toy.
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A decade later, Hasbro is re-introducing its laser tag toys, and while taking out an opponent with an invisible blast of infrared light may never be quite as satisfying as pinging an annoying co-worker with a physical dart, I have to admit that battles with the new Alphapoint and Deltaburst blasters were just simply more fun.
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An RC robot that can teach coding skillsPrice$500LikeSuper fast, customizable, built-in camera, dual blasters, easy to setup and operateDon't LikePricey, the gel beads make a mess, only comes with one batteryThat's a harder question to answer because it's difficult to recommend anyone buy a $500 toy, even one as smart and techy as the Robomaster S1.
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Image: HackerloopIn a Medium post, Hackerloop's Valentin Squirelo thoroughly documented the build, which used a combination of custom 3D-printed parts, Arduino-like electronics, a couple of electromyography sensors to detect muscle movements, and a pair of Nerf Swarmfire blasters whose round design made them perfect for this hack—although hunting them down was apparently the hardest part of building the prosthetic.
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But Amazon is going a step beyond just handling volume and power: the new voice remote contains IR blasters, so it can actually change your TV's current HDMI input, control an attached soundbar, or even tune to a specific channel on supported cable/satellite boxes ("tune to channel 43 on cable" or "tune to ESPN on cable") — just like the Cube.
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The Hitchhikerverse reminds me that you might think about offering Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters as a pre-dinner cocktail—the Ol' Janx Spirit base helps erase the telekinetic powers of guests uncouth enough to be planning party tricks, and who doesn't like the feeling of having one's brains smashed out by a gold brick wrapped in a slice of lemon?
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If you want to give these nostalgia bombs a try, know that they'll each be exclusive to Target in the US. I'm not sure if Hasbro's decision to rework and rerelease these blasters has anything to do with celebrating Lonnie Johnson's contributions during Black History Month — I would think they'd have said so — but I'll leave you with a video all about those.
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The rest is history, all of which is detailed in Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History Of L.A. Punk, Doe's just-published memoir, co-authored with SoCal punk luminaries like Mike Watt of The Minutemen, Henry Rollins of Black Flag, Dave Alvin of The Blasters, Jack Grisham of TSOL, Charlotte Caffey of The Go Go's and Exene, to name but a few.
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The Best BB-25 Yet Recognizes Voice Commands and Comes When It&aposs CalledLast September Sphero set the bar impossibly high when it comes to BB-25 toys, but at the 2100 New…Read more ReadNerf Rival Khaos MXVI-123Designed with teenagers in mind who demanded something more exciting than flying foam darts, Nerf has expanded its line of Rival blasters with its first fully-automatic model, called the Khaos MXVI-212.
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Nerf&aposs Fall Lineup Includes a Fully Automatic Version of its 25 MPH Rival BlasterAnnounced just before the New York Toy Fair last year, Nerf's Rival blasters, which launched tiny…Read more ReadBarbie Hello Dream HouseInstead of addressing the privacy concerns raised by the original Hello Barbie, Mattel has instead come out with a sprawling mansion for the doll that also listens and responds to children's requests using a wi-fi connection to the internet.
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