Wage Office Wars With These Workplace Weapons
Here at Wired, we take things very seriously. Correction — we take protecting our desks and planning sneak attacks on our coworkers very seriously. We put office-warfare gadgets to the test.
USB Thunder Missile Launcher
First on our list was the USB Thunder Missile Launcher ($36). Download the free controller software, plug in the launcher to your Windows laptop or PC by USB (a Mac update is in the works), and use your mouse or arrow keys to aim and shoot.
Because the launcher doesn’t include a webcam, ballistics are a trial-and-error affair. But it’s surprisingly easy — my first shot sent one o...
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The Joy and Pain of a DIY NCAA Fantasy League
During some free time on Tuesday, I sent an email to some friends containing the words “Justin Harper, Forward, Richmond.” In response, exactly no one wrote “Unsubscribe,” or “Who is that?” or “Dude, why are you emailing me the name of inside/outside scoring threats from the Atlantic 10 Conference?”
No, me and everyone else just got a similarly terse email a few minutes later, from another friend, announcing that Isaiah Thomas, the point guard at the University of Washington, was off the board. We were all business, with the admitted exception of the fact that we were all interrupting our...