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Super Soaker
Super Soaker is an American brand of recreational water gun that uses manually-pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt pistols. The Super Soaker was invented in 1989 by engineer Lonnie Johnson. The prototype combined PVC pipe, acrylic glass, and an empty plastic soda bottle. Originally sold by Larami and now produced by Hasbro under the Nerf brand, Super Soaker has generated more than $1 billion in total sales. The first Super Soaker went on sale in 1990 and was originally called the Power Drencher. Rebranding the name to Super Soaker occurred in 1991 together with a series of TV advertisements that resulted in two million water guns being sold. Super Soakers were popular for many years—so popular, in fact, that the term ''super soaker'' is sometimes used generically, to refer to any type of toy pressurized water gun. History In 1985 Air Force and NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson conceived of the idea of a pressurized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larami
The Larami Corporation was a toy company established by David W. Ring in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1959. It produced licensed toys based on movies and television shows. Often low-quality, these were manufactured in Hong Kong and Japan for sale on grocery store toy aisle racks for under a dollar. By the 1980s, Larami had a growing water gun product line, and launched the Super Soaker brand in 1991. In 1995, it was acquired by Hasbro Inc, which renamed it Larami Inc. before retiring it in 2002. History In 1947, David W. Ring and his brother founded Ring Brothers Toy Wholesale, selling toys to retailers out of the back of his car. Ring founded the Larami Corporation in 1959 after being introduced to toy imports during a trip to Japan earlier that year. Larami specialized in low-cost, low-quality licensed toys based on popular movies and television shows during the 1960s and 1970s, toy guns, and toy water guns.Toynfo During the 1980s, Larami expanded its water gun line, licen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombs Away (group)
Bombs Away is an Australian DJ vocal and producer duo consisting of Matthew and Thomas Coleman. They are best known for their top 40 2012 single " Party Bass". Career Matthew and Thomas Coleman were born on the Gold Coast, Australia, before relocating to Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ... early in their adult lives. They released their debut single " Big Booty Bitches" in 2010. The song reached number 3 on the Beatport Electro Top 100. and has been viewed more than 3 million times on YouTube, The song was certified gold in 2013. Their follow-up single "Swagger" was released in early 2011 and received national airplay on the Nova Network and the Today Network. Bombs Away's third single " Super Soaker" was released in September 2011 and was certified plati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is the urban core of the Philadelphia metropolitan area (sometimes called the Delaware Valley), the nation's Metropolitan statistical area, seventh-largest metropolitan area and ninth-largest combined statistical area with 6.245 million residents and 7.379 million residents, respectively. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Americans, English Quakers, Quaker and advocate of Freedom of religion, religious freedom, and served as the capital of the Colonial history of the United States, colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a historic and vital role during the American Revolution and American Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xploderz
Xploderz is a line of toy weapons made by The Maya Group to compete with Hasbro's Super Soaker, Nerf Super Soaker line and marketed as a safer alternative to paintball. The concept is based on Expandable water toy, Orbeez, a toy line also by The Maya Group that uses Superabsorbent polymer, water-absorbent gel pellets, and hence the toy line is sometimes referred to as "Orbeez ball shooters". When playing, a piston rod is manually pulled back against spring tension in a fashion similar to drawing a slingshot, allowing pellets to be drop-loaded from a top mounted magazine (firearms), magazine. When the rod is released, the spring elasticity (physics), elasticity drives piston to pressurize the air pump behind the pellets, which in turn propels the pellets flying out forward. The ammunition used is what the Maya Group calls "H2Grow Technology", wherein superabsorbent polymer pellets (containing sodium polyacrylate, sodium hydroxide and color additive, colorings) grow into spherical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LJN Toys
LJN Toys Ltd. was an American toy company and video game publisher founded by Jack Friedman in 1967. MCA Inc. acquired the company in 1985, and sold to Acclaim Entertainment in 1990. The toy division of the company was closed by Acclaim and a majority of its employees were fired as the company was shifted towards video game publishing. It was closed in 1994, but its label was used once more in 2000. History Early history (1967–1985) Jack Friedman founded LJN in 1967 using funds from his employer Norman J. Lewis Associates (from which the company name "LJN" is derived, being a reversal of Lewis' initials) after seeing the sale figures of Mattel and Milton Bradley Company increase. Friedman later founded THQ and Jakks Pacific after leaving LJN. LJN shifted money used for television advertising to instead purchase licenses to make toys based on television shows. The first toyline by LJN based on a television show was for ''Emergency!'' The highest amount the company paid for a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertech
Entertech was a brand of battery-powered motorized water guns sold in the United States from 1985 to 1990 by the now-defunct LJN. Unlike the colorful designs of many of the simple hand powered pump water guns of that time, most of the Entertech water guns were manufactured from black plastics with a matte finish to resemble real firearms. Marketing materials and television spots tout, "The look! The feel! The sound! So real! Entertech!" These powerful water guns offered a breakthrough to an existing market of squirt guns that are mostly inexpensive clear-colored plastic, hand powered, with poor effective range. The Entertech line boasts realistic looks and water storage mostly in the form of detachable magazines like their real firearm counterparts. The motorized water pumps make noises that, though not realistic, add an extra level of sensation. All of the guns except the Enforcer shotgun model have a fully automatic rate of fire (approximately 60 rpm) and a 30-foot effective r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (''AJC'') is an American daily newspaper based in metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia. It is the flagship publication of Cox Enterprises. The ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' is the result of the merger between ''The Atlanta Journal'' and ''The Atlanta Constitution''. The two staffs were combined in 1982. Separate publication of the morning ''Constitution'' and the afternoon ''Journal'' ended in 2001 in favor of a single morning paper under the ''Journal-Constitution'' name. The ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' has its headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, Georgia. It was formerly co-owned with television flagship WSB-TV and six radio stations, which are located separately in midtown Atlanta; the newspaper remained part of Cox Enterprises, while WSB became part of an independent Cox Media Group. ''The Atlanta Constitution'' In 1868, Carey Wentworth Styles, along with his joint venture partners James Anderson and (future A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Warriors
Water Warriors is a water gun brand owned by Buzz Bee Toys that was created by the company in 2003. The toy line comprises a large variety of Water_gun#Air_pressurized_reservoir, pressurized water guns (similar to early Super Soaker blasters), as well as smaller water guns for younger children. History In the 1990s, Larami's Super Soaker was the leading brand of water guns. In 2002, Larami was Takeover, acquired by Hasbro and subsequently Termination of employment, terminated a number of Larami engineers. In 2003, the former Hasbro engineers started a company called Buzz Bee Toys and created the Water Warriors brand. The "Firefly", "Hornet", "Zzapper", "Wasp", "Lightning" and "Blazer" were the first six types of water guns offered by Buzz Bee Toys. The Firefly, Hornet and Zzapper were standard air pressure water guns, the Wasp was a "piston pumper", and the Blazer and Lightning employed "Hydro-Power", a system that the Buzz Bee Toys engineers invented. Hydro-Power is an alternat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by Paul Reuter. The Thomson Corporation of Canada acquired the agency in a 2008 corporate merger, resulting in the formation of the Thomson Reuters Corporation. In December 2024, Reuters was ranked as the 27th most visited news site in the world, with over 105 million monthly readers. History 19th century Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patent Infringement
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A patent is not the grant of a right to make or use or sell. It does not, directly or indirectly, imply any such right. It grants only the right to exclude others. The supposition that a right to make is created by the patent grant is obviously inconsistent with the established distinctions between generic and specific patents, and with the well-known fact that a very considerable portion of the patents granted are in a field covered by a former relatively generic or basic patent, are tributary to such earlier patent, and cannot be practiced unless by license thereunder." – ''Herman v. Youngstown Car Mfg. Co.'', 191 F. 579, 584–85, 112 CCA 185 (6th Cir. 1911) In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buzz Bee Toys
Buzz Bee Toys is an American/Hong Kong toy company created in 2002. They are an industry leader in the dart blaster and water blaster toy categories around the globe. They currently produce under several private label brands such as Adventure Force for Walmart and their own brands of Air Warriors and Water Warriors. Brands Air Warriors Air Warriors is a line of air-operated dart blasters. Water Warriors First released in 2003, Water Warriors is a line of pressurized water guns, similar to earlier Super Soaker blasters. The blasters are technically the most powerful water guns sold today, though it has been proven that the larger models can be difficult for small children to handle. Others Originally called Air Blasters, Air Warriors is a line of foam dart guns, similar to Hasbro's Nerf Blasters line. A few of the Air Blasters products also shoot missiles or marshmallows. Air Warriors Jr. Sports consists of toy sports equipment such as foam balls, basketball hoops and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cps2000warning
CPS or cps may refer to: Organisations Canada * Calgary Police Service, Alberta * Canadian Paediatric Society * Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, recreational sailors * Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties United Kingdom * Cambridge Philosophical Society, at the University of Cambridge * Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR plc * Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank * Communist Party of Scotland * Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales United States * Chicago Public Schools * Child protective services, in many US jurisdictions * Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio * Civilian Public Service, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors * Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio * Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an education website * The College Preparatory School, Oakland, California * CPS Energy, formerly City Public Service Board of San Antonio, Texas Elsewhere * CPS (programadora) (''Comunicacione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
