Airzooka!

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About a year and half ago, our CEO Dan James walked into our old office and started shooting us with balls of air. He had bought the incredible Airzooka, which fires a ball of compressed air out of a contraption that looks like a small plastic garbage pail with a handle and a plastic bag. According to their site the Airzooka is essentially a vortex generator:

A Vortex is a bunch of air or water that is swirling around itself. Tornadoes, smoke rings, and whirlpools are good examples. When air is forced out of the front of the Airzooka air gun, some air hits the edges of the hole and slows down. This slower air is then pulled forward by the faster moving air in the center and starts swirling around itself in a ring.

It sounds simple and dorky, but it's really cool and highly recommended. Too late for Christmas, but there's always next year. It was actually featured in Wired last month, which sparked my memory.

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The Deuce -

http://deucemania.com

I love my AIRZOOKA!!!

I got mine while visiting Halifax earlier this year for a a couple of wrestling events. I had to bring it to places like work and parties because everyone wanted to see it.

pF -

Wow, who'd have thunk it!?

I got one for christmas, got back to work and then read the above post. What fun they are! I spent the whole of christmas laughing to myself about how good it was!

Steven Garrity -

http://www.actsofvolition.com

I too can confirm that the airzooka does kick ass.

Chris -

http://www.pixeldown.net

The Airzooka was also featured on The Screensavers. If anyone is wondering, I've seen them for sale at thinkgeek.com

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My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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