USB launchers

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If anyone in the UK is having trouble finding those USB missile launchers Marks and Spenser were selling, Maplins have them at the same price, although their shop I visited today had them marked at £24.95 - couldn't be bothered to argue, I'm waiting for the price to drop post Xmas.

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[dsample.livejournal.com]

I was watching [i]Call for Help[/i] (A computer tech support call in show) a while back and they did a segment on gadgets to give geeks for Christmas, and they had one of those launchers that they couldn't get to work. Theirs came from [i]Think Geek[/i]. I just checked out the [i]Think Geek[/i] site, and they are no longer selling that model. They've got a new one that they claim has twice the range:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'll be honest, I'm not as interested in them as many others seem to be - but I'm hoping to play some more with the BBC's VR software shortly, and I'm vaguely thinking about trying to use it to target the missiles. It probably isn't possible, so this is fairly low priority.

[lakrids404.livejournal.com]

If it can take a nuclear warhead as payload, would I defiantly be interested, but the data sheet is rather sparse.