Nazi-doodlebug-powered father of all paintball guns patented
Invention made in 'exploding turnip' town. Coincidence?
Transforming your business with flash storage  Intriguing and/or
terrifying news from the world of paintballing today, as it has
emerged that an inventor in America has been granted a patent on
a fearsomely powerful new paintball gun, powered by the same
"bunker buster" principle as secret World War II Nazi
superweapons.  The patented fuel/air paintball gun. Credit:
USPTO  At my signal, unleash... paint.  US Patent number
7,665,396 was granted to Dennis Tippman of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
last month, and noted by alert local news source the Fort Wayne
Journal-Gazette. It lays out the fearsome details of Tippman's
invention in lavish detail.  Essentially the idea is a simple
one. Rather than propelling a paintball using old-fashioned
compressed gas - for instance carbon dioxide - Tippman's weapon
creates a powerful fuel/air explosive mixture within its
combustion chamber. The deadly vapour is then