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.

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overclock

[dspiral7]

does anyone know how to overclock the thinkgeek laser to go higher the 5mW's? :) arh arh

What took them so long?

[Catbeller]

Well, it was inevitable. The first laser pistol.

Pity it's on Slashdot. We can count the seconds until the ATF shuts down the site. Then start the countdown until an emergency-speed law is enacted to make these things narcotic-illegal.

Of course, police and the military have had laser weapons in prototype form, along with electrical cannons, sonic blasters and other new ways to slaughter civies if necessary. Just a matter of time.

But WE won't be allowed the weapons. Zero noise. No auto-triangulation of your location. No smoke. No chemical residue. No EVIDENCE. Nope, it will be for the Darth Vaders in homeland security. Beautiful for assassins as well.

As for power. Um, wear a backpack with a large array of batteries, with a power cord plugging into the gun's battery slot. And a charging cord, suitable for plugging into walls. Or carry the power pack in a briefcase. Fuel cells will really crank up the utility.

Increase the juice another order of magnitude, and these things are deadly.

They were also inevitable. Buy 'em whilst you can! It won't be long 'til the knock on the seller's door.

Re:Are these really stories?

[LadyVirharper]

Totally off topic...but I keep seeing people bitching to thin air...whine whine whine...it's an advertisement!...whine, moan, gripe...Slashdot is selling out! ::flails, flops, moans, gripes some more::

Lots of cool geeky stuff is physical. And lots of it is located in America, and other capitolist (sp) countries. So yes, the people who make the things Slashdot links to would love any extra money that may be generated by the exposure. But that doesn't mean Slashdot is only and always out for mysterious advertising revenue these big (or small) mean corporations might be handing them under the table unknown by us poor peon Slashdot readers. Or something. Geez. The laser is cool. And someone is selling it. So what? Doesn't make it less cool.

I'm all for a good conspiracy theory story, I like all that fiction and SFF stuff myself, but there aren't always monsters under the bed.

All these jaded, modded-up gripes about "this is only an ad, not a story!" and "you guys suck, this isn't real news" is making me jaded to the jaded.

Yeah, life isn't a bowl of cherries, but it's not always a hellhole either. /end my own whine, whine, gripe, moan, flail

Re:Warning!

[shamilton]

I once caught a refraction from a ~125 mW 532 nm laser. Watery eye, headache, no big deal. I know people that have taken far worse. You catch a glimpse of ~2mW of red, and call the cops? What a wuss. All this laser damage stuff is nothing more than hysteria. Even if you lost photoreceptors, do you not realise that the damage is utterly negligible compared to all the blood vessels on your retina, not to mention your freakin' blind spot? Did it not occur to you that cops have better things to do, like beat up minorities?