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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is primarily known for founding the individual spaceflight firm SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla, just he has a few other business ventures. 1 of them is The Wearisome Visitor, which was started ostensibly to develop the necessary technology to drill tunnels for Hyperloop-style transit systems. The company is annihilation only "dull" now that information technology'll sell y'all a flamethrower. It's evidently sold a lot of them, too.

While The Tedious Visitor is mainly a geotechnical engineering firm, Musk has been getting the (intentionally cheeky) name out in that location by sharing neat concept videos and selling hats. Aye, before the flamethrower, The Slow Company sold about l,000 hats for $xx each. Musk could accept sold more, but the company capped sales of the hat. This has resulted in aftermarket prices well over $100… for a hat.

The follow-up to the hat, again, has aught to do with geotechnical engineering science. The Boring Company flamethrower can be yours for the low price of $500. Sure, $500 is a lot for what's essentially a unsafe toy, only where else are y'all going to get a flamethrower that inexpensive?

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The flamethrower was launched on the visitor'southward website on Friday and had sold vii,000 units by Sunday. That means The Slow Company has moved more than $3.five million worth of flamethrowers. The purchase folio as well offers the opportunity to add a fire extinguisher to your order for $30, which is very thoughtful and probably a skilful idea. The Boring Company admits this is overpriced, but information technology comes with a cool sticker and "the button is conveniently riiight above."

The flamethrowers are limited to 20,000 units, but they won't send until the spring. Should you order one of these devices, y'all most likely will not be committing a crime. In the Usa, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms allows civilians to ain flamethrowers as long as the flame is less than 10 feet long. The Boring Company's unit is certainly on the right side of that. For those outside the U.s., it'due south a practiced idea to check local regulations before importing a flamethrower.

What happens if the flamethrower sells out? Maybe Musk will come up with an even more absurd novelty item to sell nether The Boring Company name. Peradventure Elon Musk could become the man who finally fabricated the Warhammer 40k Chainsword a reality. If you lot want your very ain Boring Visitor flamethrower, you lot might want to hurry earlier they only exist on eBay for double the price.