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Pneumatically-powered grappling hook gun

By Rain Noe - November 22, 2010

in Object Culture

How many times have you thrown your heavy grappling hook skyward only to have it miss the windowsill, plummet back towards the ground and kill one of your accomplices?

That's no longer a problem with Battelle's Tactical Air Initiated Launch system, which accurately fires a titanium grappling hook and Kevlar line 100 feet high and sixty feet away. That means you could be standing across the street from your neighbor's tenth-floor apartment, honoring the boundaries set by the restraining order, and still hit his windowsill with this thing. Even better, the TAIL uses compressed air, so there's none of that noise you'd get with an explosive gunpowder-driven grappling hook gun. Without that telltale BANG noise, chances are slim anyone's going to call the police!

But wait, there's more! The TAIL system isn't just for firing grapping hooks--it can launch any object that fits in the barrel. Your days of tying a note to a brick and hurling it through a window (try getting that up to the tenth floor) are over!

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I find it really odd that Core 77 makes strides to promote design as a solution to the many struggles that modern humanity faces (clean water, sustainability in use of materials, etc) and then goes to the polar opposite to post this device which is produced by Battelle, a major US military contractor that has had a hand in not only destroying other sovereign nations but is doing fairly well in dismantling ours. It really seems to be at odds with what the stories of design being a potential savior from consumerism and the wrongs of modern life that are often posted on this site.
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