Tag: FLAMETHROWER

Motorcycle enthusiast Colin Furze, who recently became known for attaching a flamethrower onto the back of his scooter, was arrested in England last week. According to the Telegraph, Lincolnshire police noticed the publicity surrounding Furze's creation -- reminiscent of something from a James Bond film -- and arrested him for suspicion of possessing an object converted into a firearm. It's an ...

It's no secret. We here at Switched are a bunch of major nerds. If you knew any of us in grammar school, you probably beat us up for our lunch money. For a few short hours, though, every year, we were kings (and queens) when it came time for the science fair. But, even we couldn't have come up with a science fair project as cool as this flame-throwing robot constructed by a couple of aspiring ...

Okay, this is freakin' badass. Everett Bradford has constructed himself a pair of wrist-mounted flame throwers and shows them off in the video above. Bradford even comes as close as anyone ever will to throwing a real life Hadouken. The system uses a hip mounted can of starter fluid fed through a tube (sounds extremely safe, doesn't it?) and a hacked up barbecue lighter to ignite the gas, ...