If it was properly mortared and not just a simple wall unlike the other two tests I might be more impressed with the results.

Well, regardless of the legitimacy of the brick test, I have to say that I was mighty impressed with that vortex gun.

a long time ago, they sold toy guns that operated on the same principles.

i friggin' hate child safety advocates.

actaully, we have one in our office, i keep it in my desk.

You can still buy those toys. They're like a big plastic handgun, with a plastic sheet and rubber bands tied across the back. I just saw a couple of them somewhere recently.

For what it's worth though, it's a lot of bang for not much effect really. That thing looks like it uses a lot of energy for what you could pretty easily do with your bare hands.

I thought that was awesome. At first I thought it was just a smoke ring until he actually explained what it was.

But what's it's use? Not just for the purpose of knocking things down, yeah?

You know, I was just reminded of this clip, that I saw a while back, where this guy made a vortex gun out of house hold objects. He was a guest in that Ellen talk show.

It's the last "experiment" in the clip but watching all of them is kinda fun. I particularly liked the "anti-helium" ^^

I remember Jay Leno did something similar; but I can't find that clip anywhere.

Edit: Found it!

http://gizmodo.com/276771/anti+helium-makes-jay-leno-talk-like-ving-rhames