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Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 28, 2004 @08:45AM from the insert-remaining-eye-joke-here dept.

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.

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Are these really stories? by duckpoopy · 2004-12-28 08:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

because they seem like advertisements...

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Coming Soon: Laser TV by VernonNemitz · 2004-12-28 09:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

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!