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California Company Markets A $2,400 2W Laser Bong That You Need to Wear Protective Glasses To Use (vice.com)
Silicon Cali is now selling a massive device that uses a two-watt, 445 nanometer laser to light the bowl of a bong, according to an article shared by dmoberhaus:
This is about 400 times more powerful than the average laser pointer, which has an output of about five milliwatts. Silicon Cali even sells special glasses that are meant to protect your eyes while looking directly at the laser when you take a hit. "The laser is not that dangerous, it's not going to cut your finger off or anything crazy like that," Justin Zelaya, the founder of Silicon Cali, told me in an email. "It may sting a little bit if you get your hand in the way but kind of like a magnifying glass."
Zelaya told me that he worked with five other people to produce the bong and that their backgrounds range from "Bitcoin core developer to a mad scientist, like myself...." The glass, which is custom blown in California, is lined with color-changing LEDs. The entire thing is controlled by a phone app.
Each laser bong is being sold for $2,400 -- which as far as I can see is worth every damn penny.
The company only plans to sell 45 of these "limited edition" devices...
Zelaya told me that he worked with five other people to produce the bong and that their backgrounds range from "Bitcoin core developer to a mad scientist, like myself...." The glass, which is custom blown in California, is lined with color-changing LEDs. The entire thing is controlled by a phone app.
Each laser bong is being sold for $2,400 -- which as far as I can see is worth every damn penny.
The company only plans to sell 45 of these "limited edition" devices...
What could possibly go wrong?
All it really needs is a sticker saying "Do not look at laser with remaining eye"
Sounds like they tested their product -- a lot, and that their business plan involves giving prospective buyers a test drive.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Hopefully the technology evolves.
A friend and myself have been making anywhere from 200mA - 1.6A lasers, and indeed smoking weed with them for years.
The website states they'll produce a total of 420 such bongs
If you're like me, and assumed this meant "illuminate" the bowl, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the video.
Why do you have to point out it's a Californian company in the headline? States are usually not mentioned there for product announcements.
Table-ized A.I.
It pretty much speaks for itself. And people wonder why tech is so mediocre these days.
It will cut the 5 fingers of your hand, be careful!
that's way overpriced, wicked lasers have been selling lasers of this power at a fraction of the price for years
It's a bong, strapping a laser and some unicorn vomit on it doesn't mean it needs an app. Dr. Evil didn't need an appin' app for his frickin' sharks, we don't need an appin' app for our frickin' bongs.
Portable vaping for flower is better
Any mishap with those glasses, such as getting a bit silly and having them shift slightly on your face so that a specular reflection of laser light off of some dust particle in the air reaches your eye, and you are instantly blinded for life. Not a good idea while high.
"Remember, there never were pineapple-almond cookies here."
Right. They need to turn the power down to something like 0.002 kW.
Time honored tradition.
...at least we know the answer to the "what were they smoking when they came up with that?" question.
Great. Now we just need some perspective-enhancing alien pheromones to smoke through this Laser Hookah in a Star Wars themed cantina and perhaps there can finally be a permanent Israeli / Palestinian ceasefire.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Just wait until that phone app is no longer available. $2400 paperweight.
Do. Not. Fix. It.
Bongs don't need lasers.
Perfect for that 80â(TM)s fan watching Kung Fury on VHS and smoking his Laser Bong.
people think potheads are a bunch of stupid useless unreliable fuckers.
thanks for that. makes it so much more difficult for the rest of us whos lives don't revolve around drugs.
"The laser is not that dangerous, it's not going to cut your finger off or anything crazy like that"
It takes something like 15 J per square centimeter or so to cause third-degree burns. How thin is the 2 W beam?
Ezekiel 23:20
dope
Go out and buy a Pax vaporizer for way less money, way less risk of permanent eye damage and a much better general smoking experience. Funnily enough, a Pax loaded with loose pipe tobacco is a better overall experience than smoking tobacco in a pipe. And of course that's the ONLY WAY I USE IT! Yeah.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
You're telling me stoned people did something stupid? Now way!
(Former stoner here. My income has increased 500% since I stopped getting stoned.)
Sounds like something Rocket from Guardians of the Galaxy would come up with -- and he wouldn't bother putting any laser warning labels on it, and laugh uproariously at the fool stoners who did end up frying an eyeball with it.
Come now, stoners; a 2W laser at any wavelength is not Amateur Night shit for casuals -- let alone stoned casuals -- to be fooling with. There will be a lawsuit.
FTFY
Anyone else surprised it isn't Musk selling these?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I only entrust the smooth smoking of the best purple indicas to my phase plasma bong in the 40W range
Spend 2 400 on a gimmicky bong that could take an eye out, or spend it on more weed?
I don't think they researched their customer base that well.
b fool and their money are soon parted.
This is what people in America spend their time on?
Meanwhile China pushes ahead...
Bong cleaning is easy.
First, put in some table salt. A couple tablespoons will do.
Then put in about half as much 90% isopropanol in as you would water.
Cover all the holes, and shake the hell out of it. The salt will act as an abrasive to remove the tar, because it won't dissolve in alcohol. The 10% water in the solvent will make the salt a little slushy, but this is good.
Then rinse it out and let it dry, or put it back in service once you can no longer smell alcohol.
Stem cleaning should also be done with alcohol, though pipe cleaners and cotton swabs work better than salt for things you can actually reach.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
dont play with it you'll go blind!
If you can't trust hardware engineering from "Bitcoin core developers" and mad scientists, what can you trust?
it's not going to cut your finger off or anything crazy like that...
You need the $5000 deluxe model for that.
Bongs, power lasers, California!
By having a laser calibrated vaporize a specific amount of distillate, you could better control how much you're about to inhale than trying to suck on a pen with a heating coil. Then I won't get entirely too high because the physical process of smoking is new enough to me that I can do it wrong, like what happened on Monday.
https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12520486&cid=57184660 - RAY MORRIS NO LONGER GETS STONED, HE NOW PUSHES NAZI PROPAGANDA.
PUNK ASS RAY MORRIS LOL SOMEONE SHOOT THIS NAZI TRASH
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Architectural plans are like computer source code with a couple of differences: You only compile once.
Ok, so it does "something" with lasers. Does it work like some vapourizers that use infrared as well as other non combusting techniques? or is it a $2400 lighter.
This is a poorly written writeup and i would definitely wait for a proper review before passing judgment. A pure "smoking" experience is the holy grail of the vapourizer market, so if you can do it more pure like with lasers, that that would be interesting to know!
With legality comes a brave new world of science!
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Quantum Cannabinoids :)
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Laser Hookah
It all makes sense now. Figures it would be Rick and Morty fans that created a real-life version of a method to smoke pot that is impractical, unsafe, and extremely overpriced. Real stoners would never bother with something this daft.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
I sneak in a nug occasionally and zap it with the collider... awesome. :)
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"You're not blind;that's just the blood getting into your eyes"
The psychoactive components of marijuana boil off prior to actual combustion of the plant's woody material, so a gradual heating releases more of the desired products. A quick rise to high temperature simply burns the psychoactives along with the wood.
If you're like me, and assumed this meant "illuminate" the bowl, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the video.
Uhm no, 2W lasers don't merely "illuminate". This is well known or easily referenced so no surprise at all.
This is your brain on drugs.
Because it will not only blind you. But everyone in the room, everyone around the corner with a mirror, and everyone outside the window for quite a bit.
Oh, and if you point it at a plane, you might just have committed mass-murder, and illegal usage of quite massive "fireworks".
Anyone who can afford $2,400 for a bong is making money from cannabis prohibition directly or indirectly.
has it given you superpowers or let you see into the space beyond space, yet?
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
This bong device should have a translucent filtering tube over the emitter up to the small weed caddy or something like that.
I guess someone was high when designed that.
physics is a little different when your high. :)
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