Heh, the one time I read Lifehacker, I come across something I can actually use in the future.
It turns out that a pretty effective way to make sure an airline does not lose your luggage is to pack a gun or starter pistol into it and tell the airline that you have a weapon to declare in your check-in. By doing this, the TSA keeps extra track of your luggage because losing a gun is major headache for the agency.
And who’s been using this trick to make sure their valuables aren’t lost? Photographers! That way, thousands of dollars of equipment are kept safe and the photographer can rest comfortably while flying without having to worry about arriving to their destination with nothing to shoot with.
Matthias Wandel is back at it with his wooden inventions, this time unveiling a nifty device he calls the Jenga Pistol. The Jenga Pistol can shoot Jenga blocks out from the Jenga tower so quickly that the layer of blocks on top fall down and do not cause the tower to fall. It’s swift and easy.
He describes the gun as follows:
The pistol works by hurling a wooden captive bolt forward inside the pistol, powered by rubber bands. The bolt has a pin on the front, which protrudes out of the muzzle of the gun by about 2 cm at most. This is enough to transfer the momentum of the bolt to the Jenga block in front of the gun, not unlike how the game of croquet works.
Normally, Jenga is a multi-person game, but if I had a Jenga Pistol, I’d gladly play the game all by myself. I know, I sound like a loser, but this pistol looks fun.
