Hand-held lasers.

That's the problem - they are showing up at sporting events, someone was pointing one at some players in an NBA game a month or two ago, just imagine if someone gets lucky and gets one into the helmet of an F1 driver while on the track. Maybe not these expensive ones, but give them time... some moron will.

 

I'm sure they'll be considered weapons soon enough.

 

It says they're for "industrial use only", yet they still come in a lovely decorative box!

 

And ?

 

what would be some feasible applications for them?

i remember in Real Genius - Val Kilmer used one to fill a house with popcorn from space.

 

Dance clubs...focused on a flat black metal target for a fraction of a second. Looks "cool" beamed across the room.

 

that's so 90's

feasible... as in industrial/commercial uses where it is applied in order to make a profit from it somehow.

sniper rifles perhaps? blind your victim, THEN kill them?

 

One use is birdwatching (or any outdoor nature observation)--they make reasonable daylight "pointers". One directs the beam at foliage, rocks, etc--not at the eyes of what our looking at.

 

These would burn the foliage and the bird. The normal green pointers would be better for those purposes.


I would like to have one to try and light things from long distances but I don't know what real uses they have. There is no way I would spend twelve to thirty-eight hundred dollars to light things on fire though.

 

I guess some moron who has $3000.00 to lose on a basketball game.

 

Folks, I'm not questioning the validity of them, and actually I think the ones used at the basketball game were the el cheapo $10 jobs, but somebody was pointing one at LeBron James as he stood on the free throw line a month or two ago at a Cavs game.
I personally witnessed a kid pointing one at some competitors at a track meet (AAU Running, not car race track) about 3 years ago, I just told the richard noggin if he didn't knock it off I'd stuff it down his throat....... he left without incident.

 

someones going to make a mistake and point it at someone and really **** someone up. then theres gonna be a huge problem.

 

I have one of the regular 5mW green ones. You would not be able to see it in the day I dont think.

 

Here's a website that sells them as well... they have VIDEOS of these lasers burning stuff, cutting electrical tape, emitting beams all over the place when shot at a diamond ring.

http://wickedlasers.com/

 

disclaimer ...

and yet...

 

I want one.

 

2 grand? WTF?

 

I have the 35mW Wicked Classic green laser. Great for presentations in large areas and/or brightly lit rooms (or anywhere, including outside with > 50 lux ambient for that matter).

Also fun as a conversation piece - you could walk down Michgan Ave. in Chicago and hit the top of the Sears Tower or be riding on the upper deck of a tour bus in Manhattan and light up the top of the Empire State Building (from what people tell me).

It's...Wicked!

 

I can think of a lot better things to spend that kind of money on. Besides, i'd probably end up blinding myself. I also don't really see the point of them. What else can you do with them besides burning stuff (and using them in presentations)?

 

I doubt it would do either, unless you are close. Laser energy falls of as the square of distance. As a doc, I have used CO2 lasers that would very quickly burn a hole through a tongue blade at 5" that woulnd't even warm your skin at 3 feet.

 

Wow. This is just the thing for me to mount on my Segway when I walk my Whippet. I have found that the lighted spinners on my Segway don’t provide me with enough flash to set me apart from the crowd. Don't you agree?
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Scotty- your medical laser is pruposely uncollumated, ie it spreads it's beam past a focal point. (think like a magnifying glass burning ants.)

Most lasers radiated collumated light with 0 dispersion, and will make a .1mm point at 1meter or at 1kilometer.