This Spider-Man Webshooter 'Can Kill You'

Peter Parker is a whiz kid who turns his passion for science into some awesome Spider-Man accessories. Same with Patrick Priebe.

The ultimate fanboy, Priebe has parlayed a love of lasers and mechanized thingamabobs into a steady paycheck. “It’s enough to live,” says the 31-year-old from Wuppertal, Germany, who sells his movie-inspired stuff to gizmo-heads all over the world.

Priebe’s superhero contraptions are real… and potentially lethal. Take, for example, his latest invention: a handmade electromagnetic webshooter, which made its debut on YouTube Wednesday.

“The Spider-Man toy runs on 350 volts and the 100 joules [energy storage] charge can kill you,” Priebe tells Yahoo Movies. “No kid will ever get a laser from me… or a gauss gun,” he says, explaining that he sells much safer versions of his “toys” to adults only. “You would be very surprised, how many rich kids we have these days. And they try over and over again.”

That doesn’t stop Priebe from making his own personal supercharged versions, including X-Men-inspired Cyclops eye lasers — which scorch fabric from a few feet away. His demo videos play like a twisted hybrid of “Mythbusters” and the ’90s “SNL” skit “Sprockets,” with amusing warnings like “This is insanely stupid, don’t try this at home.”

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Yes, he has suffered for his art. “I have burned and electrocuted myself a few times, a lot of scratches and wounds,” the inventor reports, “but nothing too serious. I’m a very careful guy.”

Priebe, whose gadgets fetch between $300 and $30,000, first got notice a few years back for his pulse laser gun. “I made it for a friend [and it] ended up on Gizmodo.” After he got fired from his lab tech job following a hockey injury, he took his hobby on fulltime.

Clearly for Priebe, who keeps his more dangerous devices off limits, it’s not all about the money. But he is open to the perks of marginal Web celebrity, volunteering to Yahoo that he’d like "a nice cosplay girlfriend who loves wearing [my gadgets]."

Ladies, he’s all yours.

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