That’s not a toy for your 5 year old. It’s a real working bazooka. The ‘bullet’ even explodes. But it doesn’t kill! Wasted. It saves lives. Pretty odd right? The oddest part is that it won the award for this year’s James Dyson Award, blasting away 14 other finalists along the way.

It’s called the Longreach, and it’s made from hydrophobic foam which expands in the water. The Longreach is capable of blasting a missile to a distance of 150m, and it somehow saves lives when it blast.

The winner designer, 24-year-old Samuel Adeloju, has been awarded £10,000 ($15,900) for himself, and another £10,000 for his engineering faculty at the University he graduated from in New South Wales.

Flares attached to the buoyancy aid would help the waterlogged person attract attention, and as the aid expands in the water to 40x its size (in just 15 seconds!), it’s compact enough to store in even the smallest cupboards aboard a boat.

SOURCE via James Dyson Award