Remember the classic NES Zapper, as used in games like Duck Hunt? Well, an intrepid tinkerer at North Street Labs hacker space in Portsmouth, Virginia, has taken that same harmless toy and retrofitted ...

Be careful when playing around with North Street Labs' NES Zapper, which the Portsmouth, Virginia-based "hackspace" modified with a high-powered blue laser — you'll burn your eye out, kid. Be careful ...

The Zapper gun from the original Nintendo was ahead of its time. That time, though, was around 30 years ago and the iconic controller won’t even work with most modern televisions. With a little ...

If there was ever one fatal flaw with the Zapper lightgun peripheral that Nintendo created for its first foray into the home console market, it’s that the thing couldn’t actually zap anything that ...

Finally one of the first guns we ever handled – the NES Zapper – has become a real duck hunting laser canon. Alright you’ll probably just set ducks on fire rather than end them like in the original ...

In a nutshell: We've seen some pretty clever NES-related mods over the years but this latest one involving the Zapper light gun accessory may take the cake. Remarkably – and for reasons we haven't yet ...

The NES Zapper became iconic alongside Duck Hunt, but what if it looked like a real laser gun? That's the question asked and answered by British artist Seb Lee-Delisle, who built exactly that.

We have one, yes – but what about a second death ray? Still shopping for the perfect death ray, the US Army has tapped Huntington Ingalls to build and test a prototype laser weapon designed to fry ...

As always, the new year is the perfect time to focus on the new you: whatever you hope to change, 2017 can be a blank slate. Just in time to realize all your resolutions for a slimmer, fitter bod, a ...

Three years ago, the Army tried out a Boeing-built, Humvee-mounted laser in Iraq. By military standards, it was weak - just a single kilowatt, instead of the 100 kilowatts ordinarily considered ...