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Lasers for Fun and Profit

Posted by michael on from the all-we-need-is-some-sharks dept.

Stuart of Wapping writes "This is a very interesting site, links to pages describing real-life, tried-and-tested Star-Trek/James Bond gadgets... The Laser Medical Pen, or Medpen, developed in-house by the Laser Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, is a second-generation device that provides a physician or paramedic with a unique, compact, portable, and battery-operated laser capability. The laser can cut like a scalpel as well as coagulate bleeding."

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  1. Dilberted? by C0LDFusion · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember Scott Adams mentioning something like this in "The Dilbert Future", and why it wouldn't go mainstream, because people would buy them from medical supply stores. And then just imagine them in the hands of your friends. Go to sleep and have your asscrack sealed.

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  2. Laser Tag? by reezle · · Score: 4, Funny


    Wow, I thought laser pointers in traffic were bad.
    This'll bring it to a whole new level.

  3. Fun with lasers? RTFM for lasers... by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    First page of the instruction manual that comes with a laser:

    CAUTION: DO NOT LOOK INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE!

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  4. Yea but,,, by FreeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    All that money. All that research. All those lasers.

    And yet the one thing I ask for is still missing. That's right. I want some sharks with frickin lasers attached to their heads.

    Throw me a bone here, people.

  5. Thats a hell of a pen... by Bo'Bob'O · · Score: 3, Funny

    Laser Medical Pen is 12 inches long, less than 1-inch in diameter, and weighs a mere pound.

  6. Did anyone read the disclaimer page.. by johnlcallaway · · Score: 3, Funny
    ... for the site here? It reads:
    Official U.S. government system for authorized use only. Do not discuss, enter, transfer, process or transmit classified, sensitive national security information of greater sensitivity than that for which this system is authorized. Use of this system constitutes consent to monitoring. Unauthorized use could result in criminal prosecution. Unclassified, non-senstive, non-privacy act use only.
    Where are the privacy advocates when you really need them??? The were all whining yesterday about toll system monitoring, yet just by clicking a slashdot link we consent to monitoring.

    You people are just not doing your jobs and will have to be fragged.
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