Upgrading the bow and arrow aint no walk in the park. The thing is perfected already. It’s lethal, efficient, fairly portable too. It’s been around for awhile. Somehow, the folks over at Thinkgeek have managed to make the weapon even cooler. Messier too. The Bow and Mallow shooter at long last combines archery with marshmallows. Check out the video below to see it in action.

Man, if I were still a kid, I could think of about a hundred different ways to get in trouble with this thing. I would think it would be perfect for Mischief night. While others are soaping up windows and TP’ing houses, you and a few friends could do stuff like, I don’t know, completely cover cars in marshmallows and the like. Loads of fun.

Man, when I was a kid I had all kinds of mildly illegal fun with slingshots. These days, the slingshot seems to have been forgotten, which is a shame because it’s a good weapon. It was the weapon of choice for Dennis the Menace.

Until now that is. Like everything else, the slingshot has now had an upgrade. If I were a kid again, I’d definitely use one of these Ringshots. Instead of holding a Y-shaped weapon, this slingshot slips on your index finger and thumb. Not sure about pricing and availability, but I am sure it’s all kinds of evil fun.

It will make your guns sparkling clean though. This has Sarah Connor written all over it. If mankind’s future depends on protecting John Connor and forming a resistance against the cyborg threat, you are gonna want your equipment clean and thus less likely to malfunction.

It’s essentially a dishwasher for guns, making it quick and easy to clean them so you can get right back out there and kill stuff. Or whatever it is you do. It will clean up to 10 handguns or 4 long guns at the same time. Clean guns…That’s what will win against SkyNet, no matter how many Terminator’s they send your way.

Next time you go to grab your little Taser stunner out of your purse, think about this: what would even be more frightening to a potential mugger is a grandma wielding a Taser shotgun. That’s right - Taser has announced an extended range projectile to add to your Taser arsenal.

Taser is of course targeting law enforcement with its new eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP). It will fit any standard 12-gauge shotgun and smack you down with “the same Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation (NMI) bio-effect as our handheld TASER X26, but can be delivered to a distance of up to 100 feet, combining blunt impact with field proven TASER NMI.” Each projectile will come pre-packaged in a shell compatible with 12-gauge shotguns and will be transparent so police known which type of ammo they are taking you down with.

We aren’t sure what shocks us more with this product announcement - the Taser itself or the fact it is outfitted in a leopard print. Either way you look at it Taser drew some attention at CES this week by unveiling this stylish (?) take on a way to zap your attacker. It is the latest addition to the company’s C2 line up of personal protection devices.

Taser also was showing off a holster for your C2 which doubles as a MP3 player with 1GB of memory. That’s right - you can stalk the streets at night, favorite rock song playing in your buds, as you zap bad guys all around town.

Read more about Taser’s new gear after the jump.

We just can’t help but smile every time we look at this picture. What looks like a scene out of Jackass, the WildSling is a giant, three-person slingshot (or waterbomb catapult as the company calls it). The design calls for two people standing a safe distance apart to hold the WildSling handles while a third person pulls back the business end of the huge slingshot and aims for launch.

You probably wouldn’t want to launch anything more dangerous than a water balloon, and 50 balloons come with this package. The company says it can launch a balloon as far as 300 feet but I’m sure other things could go farther.

The MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) robot is a 350 lb murder machine with upgraded weapon systems over its predecessor which was a modified anti-bomb robot retooled to carry armaments. Foster-Miller is the company responsible for the early system and the armament upgrades and their armed robot is the only one of its kind in Iraq, but its not firing a shot.

Safety concerns have prevented the killbots from being deployed in live combat, which prompted the development of this new death machine designed from the ground up as a combat robot and including several precautionary software implementations. The controller is now able to select fire and no fire zones, and a mechanical range fan is responsible for keeping the weapon aimed away from friendly positions. GPS programs installed in tanks and Humvees using battlefield mapping technology have proven successful in reducing friendly fire in Iraq, prompting the same technology for use with the new MAARS robot. Additionally a final precaution has been implemented to prevent the unit from being able to fire upon its controller’s location.

What’s left for the universe of “Halo” to conquer? Handheld guns, of course. Jasman Toys got the license to make replica weapons from the upcoming “Halo 3″ video game and are set to release the first two models this October.

A Plasma Rifle (pictured) and Pistol from the Covenant side of the game (those are the bad guys) will arrive in toy shops and video game stores a few weeks after Microsoft releases the final chapter in the bestselling FPS franchise. Sometime in 2008 a Covenant Energy Sword will also hit store shelves. …

If you’re going to carry a TASER around with you, at least now there’s more color options for the thing so you can try to coordinate with your outfit for the day. This Pink TASER also comes in colors of gray, silver and blue, but just because it’s colorful doesn’t mean it’s not powerful. The TASER C2, pink or not, still packs a wallop that will leave most would-be assailants stuck in their tracks.

The device is purposely non-gun shaped and has a large lightening bolt on the front to let the person on the …

The military has been on something of a PR campaign with showing off its latest 21st century combat weapon, a mobile truck that can direct a blast of directed energy at a person up to two kilometers away causing them near-instant waves of pain. The so-called “pain gun” is technically described as the Active Denial System (ADS) and has been called the “Holy Grail of crowd control” by soldiers.

After being stationed by the driver, the square satellite dish mounted on top of the …