Spyra recently sent me its new $54 SpyraGo electric water blaster, so I decided to bring back a literal blast from the past: a 1998 Super Soaker CPS 2500, one of the most effective hosers ever made.

The inventor of the Super Soaker water gun is among seven inductees into this year’s class of the Alabama Business Hall of Fame. Lonnie Johnson, an inventor, engineer and entrepreneur, is one of the ...

Historically, water guns were small and simple, with a measly reservoir for ammunition. But in 1982, U.S. Air Force and NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented a new generation of water gun by combining ...

Gordon Gottsegen is a tech writer who has experience working at publications like Wired. He loves testing out new gadgets and complaining about them. He is the ghost of all failed Kickstarters. If you ...

What do you do when you’re done building the world’s largest Nerf Gun? If you’re Mark Rober, you set your sights on the mother of all water guns. Rober is a former NASA engineer who clearly likes to ...

ATLANTA (CN) - The man who invented the Super Soaker claims in court that Hasbro owes him royalties for the water gun. Johnson Research and Development Co. sued Hasbro for breach of contract, in ...

Hasbro has recalled two Super Soaker water guns because ink used in the stickers on the water tanks contain lead that exceeds federal standards. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why generations love the Super Soaker line of water guns. “I’ve been accused of being a rocket scientist,” laughs Lonnie Johnson, who was working for ...

Thousands of water guns which are sold only at Target are being recalled by Hasbro, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a notice. "The decorative sticker on the water tank of the water ...