Jul 21 2008Wasp Knife In Action: Goodbye Watermelon

Such carnage...

Great example. After all, people are exactly the same as watermelons on the inside, so they chose to do the right thing.

Of course the knife is stupid from the get-go, but whatever...people will make weapons because they can.

(proto-)

F*** me. That would be one disgusting, inefficient, messy kill.

I'd huff that

Why didn't they use something like ballistics gel? You know, something that actually simulates human skin and flesh.

not so much WASP vs. watermelon as it is 'watermelon ruthlessly violated by WASP'

"Vs." usually signifies some kind of battle or competition- neither of which took place here

Christ, stabbing people just gets better.

for those times when you need to pop someone like a balloon? This weapon seems unnecessarily gruesome... Why not just hack into them with a chainsaw, or how about an ax... Wait, I know, stab them and then stuff a hand grenade into the wound. Seriously, whoever came up with this is messed up in the head.

yeah with a story on the news every other day about some innocent kid getting stabbed to death, lets now make knife crime more "sofisticated" the people who invented this should have it used on them. dumb bastards

I dunno, I kinda expected more explosion and less neat little slice.

Bah.

Yeah, that's something the world really needs.

The inventor probably watched "No Country for Old Men" and thought he could make a device more portable for psychotics than the cow brain jabber.

This is the worst episode of Veggie Tales ever!

I neeeeed that knife

I have to agree with #5.

Watermelons might exaggerate the damage compared to ballistics gel. Melons have a hard exterior and the increased air pressure within might be what caused them to split.

In people, it could possibly only cause a bloating which willsubside when the knife is retracted. Painful, sadistic and greusome but probably not explosive. Bendz (nitrogen in the blood stream) might be a more worrying problem.

So they finally invented a knife that can run out of ammunition. Great!

I can't figure out if this is something that will be featured on an infomercial on the Food Network or as a weapon.

When going to a knife fight, is it wise to bring one you have to reload? Better to bring a gun.

Is he wearing a jumpsuit to fight a watermelon? This is SO ghey.

All at the highly impressive rate of two stabs per minute.

How come that guy with the blue shirt is glowing?

I want one! and I want to go around blowing up every fruit i see!!

That promo video sucked. I hope they aren't using that video as an attempt to sell these knives because I'd be completely unsold.

ok, so, have any of you ever had training to fight with knives? fighting with knives is really intense. I would never think to press a button on my knife after I made deep contact. I'd be too busy thinking, "Is he dead yet? No?" Then I'd stab him again. Considering the effort it appears to take just to push the button, this is nowhere near worth it. Also: does it have a safety? Could it possibly go off in your sheath?

Is that blue guy an angel?!

so it's a murder weapon then? it's not made for self-defense, it's made specifically to kill.

awesome.

I'd hate these things toi be available in the UK right now.....

Dolphins trained by the Navy have used CO2 cylinders with long actuator tubes to inject a big ball of gas into any diver around a Naval ship. Since they use sonar, they can find the divers in any water conditions. A 600.lb ball of muscle swimming at 30mph slams a steel tube into your mid section, you explode, and it swims off clicking gleefully to play with a red rubber ball.

These knives are supposed to be anti shark weapons for divers - hence the guy in the wetsuit - but I don't think it'll be long before some kid in London get one stuck in his back.

Great, until bad people get a hold of the knife.

My friend just ordered this knife (he has lots of disposable income). Looks fun but even he admits that its not practical, just brutal.

@14: Then get some ballistics gel and execute the specific action which you are curiously going out of your way to imply that you will verily do, you homosexual.

I stand by my original assertion regarding this knife. Waste.

"okay, stay still. I have to press this button now"

Even if this was designed to ward off sharks, do you thik that you would actually have the time to activate the device for the split second it may actually have contact with the shark?

Lame. Fun to play with, but so not practical.

I'd stick with a bang stick for sharks... and guys in wetsuits...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangstick

OK, but can it cut through a tin can and still slice smoothly through my tomatoes. That's what I want to know.

If this is used for sharks, it's best to remember the best chance of survival against sharks is to dive with somebody who swims slower than you.

http://waspknife.com/about.php will show what the knife is really for, not just some dumbass killing watermelons. Having been in actual knife fights myself, I can tell you that the injection of freezing cold gas is pretty much going to stop the fight right then if not just kill the animal or person. These are basically great dive knives, and again having had to use knives underwater as well, these are exceedingly neat.

@30 - Don't go around calling other people gay when you start spewing words like 'verily'.

the evil computers that secretly run the world never fail to be amazed and impressed at the new and terrible ways you find to maim one another. please continue.

I wonder...since the compressed gas is released via a pathway in the knife blade itself, then would that mean the blade is susceptible to breakage, seeing as it's partially hollow? Seemingly pointless to carry a one-use device (assuming those carrying it would use it as it was designed for).

Seriously messy shit, too.

I'd huff that