{"id":5945,"date":"2012-09-10T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2012-09-09T23:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:39:51","slug":"the-history-of-nerf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-history-of-nerf\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Nerf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090912_2140_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jason Fagone wrote about some of the history of, and the current challenges for, Nerf the maker of foam weapons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most frequent request is for Nerf to build guns with greater firing ranges and more ammo capacity.<\/li>\n<li>The desire to build a better Nerf gun is so strong that there&#8217;s a vibrant modding community. Run a search for it and you&#8217;ll find how you can double the firing range, build homemade darts, and even make your Nerf gun look like an AK-47.<\/li>\n<li>The history of Nerf begins with a foam ball created in 1969 by the same person who invented the game Twister.<\/li>\n<li>In 1989 the first Nerf blaster was sold. It shot foam spheres. Other Nerf products including a football which howled in flight soon followed.<\/li>\n<li>The first Nerf gun to fire the now iconic darts was released in 1992.<\/li>\n<li>Recent guns include one that can switch between single shot and rapid fire mode, removable parts, and a semi-automatic firing mechanism.<\/li>\n<li>The latest addition to the Nerf line is the Hail-Fire pictured above. It fires darts at a speed of 50 miles per hour and holds 144 of them distributed among 8 clips.<\/li>\n<li>Hasbro, the parent company of Nerf, relies on sales of the products. It is one of only three product lines (in addition to Beyblade and Transformers) that brought in more than $400 million last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the evolution of the Nerf gun, the design process behind it, and the laboratory in which kids try out the guns over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/09\/how-nerf-became-worlds-best-purveyor-of-big-guns-for-kids\/all\/?pid=905&amp;viewall=true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2012\/09\/how-nerf-became-worlds-best-purveyor-of-big-guns-for-kids\/all\/?pid=905&amp;viewall=true\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Fagone wrote about some of the history of, and the current challenges for, Nerf the maker of foam weapons: The most frequent request is for Nerf to build guns with greater firing ranges and more ammo capacity. The desire to build a better Nerf gun is so strong that there&#8217;s a vibrant modding community. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/090912_2140_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}