Joerg Sprave is INSANE.

You’ll never look at fidget spinners the same way again. I mean, Joerg Sprave himself kind of thinks that he’s out on the edge on this one.  But when life gives you a fidget spinner and you’re Joerg, you make it into a super-sharp mini-Krull Glaive. Because that’s the kind of huy he is.

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Joerg Sprave has created the full-auto crossbow.

And it is just as beautiful as anyone could ask for.  Mind you, it is electric — Sprave’s taken a power drill and is using it to power the rack and pinion mechanism that recocks the crossbow — but it’s still gorgeous.  Heck, it’s understandable.  Watch this a few times, and you really get how the mechanism works.

Seriously: this is why the single most powerful spell in GURPS is Dancing Object (used to be called Air Golem). You can use it to fuel an entire Industrial Revolution. …But I am getting far afield, here. Suffice it to say that Joerg Sprave really has a gift for this stuff.

‘The Zombie Decapitation Slingshot.’

Somebody just sent me this link, because they know me.

Oh, yes, they know me.

“Yes, it’s the TOILET SEAT OF DEATH!”

As I’ve said before, I think: one great tragedy of this reality not being a steampunk reality is that this man does not have the opportunities that his genius should earn him.

Joerg Sprave is WASTED in this timeline.

He deserves to live in an alternate timeline where Steam and Clockwork Automatons are the bases on SCIENCE! is constructed:

…because there he would be Herr Doktor Joerg von Sprave, and his mastery of slingshot technology would make him the scourge of evil-doers everywhere.

Via Gizmodo, who is as much in delighted awe of the man as I am.