Hand Mounted Flame Thrower

emeraldd writes "Everett Bradford's 'Prometheus Device' is a hand-mounted appliance that shoots fire."

This Looks Completely Safe

[GammaKitsune]

What could possibly go wrong?

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[bughunter]

A facepalm, that's what.

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[puppetman]

The guy appears to be inside while making this video.

Quite a lot, I would guess.

I wonder why his hair is so short....

Ride a Unicycle

[dgmartin98]

Let's see you ride your unicycle in this picture, while shooting flames.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Everett.Bradford/Prometheus#5399717924470820610 [google.com]

not just burning hands

[Dareth]

You should be able to do a descent aganazer's scorcher with that!

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[jhantin]

It looks to me like you'd need more gas-manipulation punch to pull off the Scorcher; at minimum (3rd) caster level, it's a roughly 5 foot wide [gez117.free.fr] by 30 foot long [d20srd.org] damage zone but producing only a brief flash of singeing flame.. As it is, it looks more to me like a first-level Zann Esu style Inferno [wikia.com], with maybe 10 foot range but higher and more sustained damage delivery.

Hand Mounted

[Techman83]

Did anybody else read this as "Head Mounted" when they first glanced at the headline (scuse the pun)? Pretty cool none the less and does stop me wondering what use a head mount one would have :P

Um...so?

[bradley13]

I'm just as much for gadgets as anyone, but this one is somehow kind of pointless. It's not even as handy as having a hand-held torch: mounted on your palm, it makes your hand entirely useless. And you better be damn careful not to close your fingers after using it.

nice

[screamphilling]

looks like the ultimate power trip until someone comes at you with a firehose

Cool!

[Fantastic Lad]

When I was a kid, I put enormous energy into similar projects. It was totally fun, but I knew of course at the time it was not terribly practical. I mean, how often does one need to deploy a genuine super-gadget? Somewhere close to, "Never". And anyway, you can't keep that sort of thing secret, because half the fun is showing it off to people.

I put it down to not having a girlfriend during high school. ;-)

Either way, that's a pretty awesome flame thrower. I like how the flame's strength is based on how

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[DarkMage0707077]

Heck, you might already have a sweetie pie around.

Well, if he did, I hope he doesn't have any accidents around her with this thing. Then she'd be a rather crispy fritter.

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[Garridan]

I dunno. I was just thinking how much fun a pair of these would be at a political protest, when cops in riot gear show up...

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[v1]

I also like how it auto-ignites

It uses what he calls an "arc generator" in the video. (ironman reference?) It's a piezo electric (or other high voltage/low current generating) spark generator. You can see two curved wires coming up from the sides of the gas orifice and turning to face each other and ending. The spark jumps between them and ignites the gas. You can hear two sounds from the gadget in the video, one is a jit-jit-jit coming from what I assume is a small servo motor like used in model cars/p

Not impressed

[Weaselmancer]

But only because I'm spoiled since I've seen the Flaming Tuba. [youtube.com]

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[kramulous]

Awesome.

Great!!!

[mcfatboy93]

now how do you turn it off?

so...

[myVarNamesAreTooLon]

... incoming bad super-villain?

redefines .... slashdots firehose

[freaker_TuC]

quite nice to see it's being served through firehose ..

What could possibly go wrong .. hopes slashdot has good sprinklers installed!