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Video Flagged Dead

DATASTORM V1.0

submitted by James Roe

1 decade 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago

from slashdot

"I ran across a huge stash of floppies at our office, and after some discussion, it became clear that rather than throw them away, we should build a gun that fires floppies. I had just bought a welder so this was a challenging first project. After about a month of work in my garage at night the DataStorm was born. It was constructed of scrap metal, a kid's bike, a weed-eater motor, and an electric screwdriver. The most difficult task ended up being how to add spin to the disk without significantly reducing its velocity. After a week and a half of trying different options, a stack of zip ties was found to work best. Since we had so much time in it we elected to shoot an infomercial showcasing the device, and had to learn to shoot & edit video as we went. It was basically an office joke that spiraled out of control. My wife is not amused. At all. I hope you like it."

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/entertainment/08/05/12/0055218.shtml

8 Comments

I rushed to post this after seeing it on slashdot and noticing the embed validated.... it kind of sucks. I would be surprised to see this get out of the queue. Slashdot sort of blows these days....

Would be moar funnier as a QVC type sale commercial.

*findthumb

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - findthumb requested by lucky760.

Ok for some reason sound won't play for me. it works for other videos and every other audio device on my computer but I can't hear a dang thing in this video.

Moving this video to James Roe's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*dead (revver embed)

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by oritteropo.

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