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Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available
nazgul000 writes "You thought those green laser pointers sold by ThinkGeek and others were pretty cool, didn't you? Well, think again." It seems obligatory to point out that even laser pointers, and certainly anything more powerful than those, are capable of causing real damage.
really has very little real world value and should be pulled off of the market. As you can see here, this stuff can do REAL damage.0 928-11135 6-3924r.htm
http://washingtontimes.com/national/2004
If someone wants a pointing device, fine, but to make it so powerful that it can burn holes in objects is crazy.
This laser must be treated like a loaded gun at all times.
I wonder when the FDA is going to start treating devices like this as such. I'm sure it won't be long before you have to start registering these things.
Go ahead and call me unreliable; reliable is just a synonym for predictable.
because they seem like advertisements...
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...Hooked up to a scope, this could be a very deadly tool. This would easily blind someone at a distance.
I hate having strict regulations on everything..but.. the thought of a couple of kids playing a prank and permanently blinding me while I'm on my way to work is very scary.
That being said, I really want one. I wish the site hadn't died so soon.
Jerry
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i.e. is it strong enough to melt metal?
Just need three lasers, red, blue (not yet widely available), and green, and means to switch their (big not needed!) output power to 256 levels very rapidly. Then a fairly simple arrangement of horizontal and vertical rotating mirrors can scan the flickering beams across, say, an ordinary home-movie projection screen, rather like we do with electron beams and electromagnets in a CRT. Somehow I think somebody somewhere has been working on this...but the lasers have so far been too expensive. But not much longer! Remember Blu-Ray? That diode laser is the last piece needed!
Don't be a dick. It's hillarious that they got the patent. It's tragic that the USPTO granted it.
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
In a regular CRT, phosphors "hold" the image, continuing to glow between electron beam strikes. Still, there is a certain amount of flicker. With a laser, there is nothing to keep glowing, so the only persistence comes from the viewer's retina and perception, which doesn't seem to be enough to prevent flicker. Have you ever seen a laser display? It's annoying to look at...
The trouble with /. is that when you post something funny there are half a million people who get it, but still twelve who don't, and they need to post about it.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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I once had a truck driver and his passenger bouncing a red laser into my eye off of my rear view mirror as I was driving down the road!! Unfortunately they didn't have a "how's my driving" sticker and their tag was so crud-encrusted I couldn't make out the number. I would've loved to have been able to tell the FHP exactly who to go nail though - it's very scary when you're driving along, minding your own business, and all of a sudden are literally seeing red. Lucky for me, the afterimage only lasted a couple seconds and there was no (apparent) lasting damage.
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
There is a 2 second delay after you click the "on" button before the laser will produce a beam.
Holy cow. That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard. It will cause people to do exactly what you suggest. "Hmm, is this thing on?"
I wouldn't like the soldering iron i use to burn out my eyesockets by pointing it onto a roundish surface.
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The best part is that this is apparently a requirement for making the device legal for licensing. Reminds me of how the US mandates that any soot in diesel exhaust here now has to be under a certain size, but the bigger particles are filtered out by lung cilia and the smaller ones aren't. Makes you wonder who makes this shit up.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Specular reflection
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Yeah, remember that when you're dying from cancer, because corporate 'special interests' were let off 'the hook', and you're too fucked up on morphine to say goodbye to your kids.
Oh, and have a nice day. Heheh...sucker
it is a general rule that if you need goggles, you are not right for the job.
If that's the attitude you had towards safety, I'm glad you're no longer in that line of work. I suspect your insurance carrier wouldn't have been too pleased, either.