Coincidentally, “the flamethrower move” is also popular in the game “Street Fighter”…
Well, thanks to inspiration from fantasy warfare (and YouTube DIY tech star Allen Pan, who, as of today, has 342,439 subscribers and nearly 50 million views on his YouTube Channel), there are now very real world flamethrower gloves. Allen’s mantra is taken from Arthur C, Clark (“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”), as he describes on his YouTube “About” page: “My name is Allen, I try to make pretend things into real things!” and as you can see below, Allen is a man of his word. Allen has made and displayed (in his videos) a variety of devices, including a grappling hook gun, “web shooters” (a la Spiderman), and Thor’s hammer, and on July 29th, 2017 Allen revealed his latest work in a new video, and it is based upon anime characters and computer games: “Punch Activated Arm Flamethrowers” .
The flamethrowing gloves track the wearer’s arm motion and only activate on “good punches”. Get ready, because in describing how the gloves work I (via Allen) am gonna get technical:
“Hackster” (the punch activated part of the project) relies upon an “Arduino Pro Mini” (a small computer built on a single integrated circuit board) and an accelerometer (an instrument for measuring acceleration).
And so there you have it. “Punch Activated Arm Flamethrowers”. I suppose that It’s only a matter of time before they’re available at K-Mart or on Amazon… I wonder if Arthur C, Clark is proud of Allen’s homage (or rolling in his grave…).
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