Elon Musk: I’ll dub my flamethrower “Not a Flamethrower” to thwart customs

Enlarge (credit: Boring Company) Last weekend, the Boring Company offered 20,000 novelty flamethrowers for sale. By Thursday, all 20,000 had sold out. But now Elon Musk says the company has hit an obstacle. “Some customs agencies are saying they won’t allow shipment of anything called a ‘Flamethrower,’” Musk tweeted on Friday night. “To solve this, […]

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s flamethrower

Welcome back to Monday. If you’ve been waiting to hear more on Samsung’s next Galaxy flagship, we’ve got you covered. As well as everything else that happened over the weekend, naturally. Like Elon Musk with a flamethrower. Intelligent Scan would work day or night. Samsung Galaxy S9 may pack more reliable face recognition Samsung has […]

Elon Musk’s Boring Company is selling a flamethrower

No, we’re not kidding. After weeks of teases, Elon Musk has confirmed that The Boring Company is selling… a flamethrower. That’s right, the same company digging traffic-skipping tunnels is now offering a weapon. Plunk down $ 500 for a pre-order (there’s no word on when it will ship) and you can have the “world’s safest” […]

A Vietnam War veteran explains the tactical case for the flamethrower

US Marine Corps The US military stopped using flamethrowers in 1978, but there are several potential applications of the flamethrower to modern counter-terrorism operations. Still, the potential for uncontrollable and indiscriminate collateral damage makes them less-than-ideal for prolonged operations in urban terror strongholds like, say Mosul or Raqqa. But there’s no law against them in the […]