. . Okay, that's just cool.

[taennyn]

Y'know how Apple's boasting about the MacBook Airs weighing a bit less than 4 pounds?

There's a rifle design that's been around for forty-odd years that in its basic configuration weighs two and a half. It also disassembles to use its stock as a carrying device for the whole thing. Which floats.

Wikipedia link
Non Wikipedia review link

Comments

[dormouse_in_tea]

Very shiny indeed.

Also shiny, and giving me Ideas? http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html

[taennyn]

That is neat; boy has a theory that you could use one of those to power a moving/'living' tattoo--a sailboat that actually rocked, or waves that crashed on a shore or something.

(My boy is not ocean-aligned at ALL)

[dormouse_in_tea]

One would never suspect him of this. *solemn*

[coastal_physics]

>.> <.

[taennyn]

it'd take up a lot of space in a bag. just sayin'

They're light little survival-type rifles. It's Neat.

Also, a Terrible Line: 'Apple, Inc is giving itself airs.'

[jezebeau]

The best reason I can think of for having a Macbook Air over one of the more functional models is that you can keep it in a hollowed-out book.

That's all well and shiny, but it just doesn't compare to this.