Meet Lancehead F1, A Limb-less Hunting-Grade Crossbow Packed With Innovations

The mention of a crossbow immediately conjures up the image of a bow-like contraption on a rifle-like frame. It is not clear when the term ‘crossbow’ was coined, but it is clear the name represents the form of the weapon, i.e. a bow cross onto (something). However, the ‘bow’ thingy on a crossbow is not called …

Meet The World’s First Commercially Manufactured “Tactical” Crossbow

Remember the real working From Dust Till Dawn pump action crossbow? Well, the man behind it, Joerg Sprave, have conceived a new system that, to the joy of crossbow enthusiasts, will be available soon. Made by EK Archery based on the company’s Cobra system, the Cobra RX Adder Tactical Repeating Crossbow is described as the …

Marshmallow Crossbow Takes Marshmallow War To The Next Level

If you have been abiding by the childhood rule of ‘never play with food’ thus far, well, then this grown up toy will likely make you forsake that rule forever. What you see here is the MMX Vancouver Marshmallow Crossbow and as the product name implies, it is a crossbow that takes marshmallow as projectile. …

Behold, The Real Working From Dust Till Dawn Pump Action Crossbow

If you have a thing for weapons and you have watched Robert Rodriguez’s From Dust Till Dawn (Dimension Films, 1996), you may have noted the kick-ass weapon, a pump action crossbow used in the movies by Kate Fuller (played by Juliette Lewis). Now, if you have any idea how a crossbow works, you will know …

What We Have Missed: Day 225, Week 33 Year 2014

Self-assembling Origami Robots Are What Nightmares Are Made Of scientists have successfully developed a flat-pack robot made of papers and plastic, mounted with batteries and motors, that folds itself together and move. using “shape memory polymers” that contract like muscles when heated, it took a while for the robot to take shape and walk, but …