Cool Gift of the Day
Thursday, October 06, 2005
What it is:
The ultimate rubber band gun, suitable for the most pitched battles.
Why we love it:
The history of cocking a rubber band over your thumb and forefinger and firing it off at someone (a fellow student perhaps, a coworker, maybe a sibling across the breakfast table) is a long and honorable one. Rubber band combat has long been viewed as a way to resolve international disputes of the gravest import. The thumb and forefinger method is a classic, but it lacks a certain amount of finesse. Being fairly serious rubber band warriors ourselves, we searched high and low for the best rubber band gun out there, and boy howdy did we find it. Firewheel Rubber Band Guns take their job very seriously. Capable of shooting up to ten rubber bands individually or in bursts, for distances of up to 25 feet, the Firewheel is a lean, mean, rubber band firing machine. If you know someone who is dying to be king of the office, this Excalibur of the rubber band wars will put them on top. It even has a "shotgun mode" that allows you to fire off the whole magazine as one blast, now that is a toy that's not playing around.
Who we'd give it to:
Teens, bored office workers, cowboys, indians.
Where to get it:
From
Think Geek for a hard-shooting $24.99