Right To Keep and Bear Lasers

The coming generation of lasers can do some amazing things; like create matter?

When a high-powered laser fires, causing photons to impact electrons at a tremendous velocity, it is possible for matter — a positron-electron pair — to be created by the impact, as was demonstrated in a Stanford experiment in 1997. When such matter is created with a sufficiently high energy, it in turn can emit photons that move fast enough that they create their own matter. This cascade effect can have as much energy as the laser itself does, and result in the destruction of the laser. – [source]

But, what we geeks like even better is a hand-held laser which not only looks like a Lightsaber, but also which could cause skin to be set ablaze and cause permanent eye damage (from up to a mile away)!

The Hong Kong-based company bills the new device as “the most dangerous laser ever created.” The laser is accordingly raising eyebrows in the blogosphere and in safety circles alike.

“There really is no need for an individual private citizen to use [this laser] because it is way too powerful and unsafe,” said Gus Anibarro, education director of the Laser Institute of America in Orlando, Florida.

Called the Spyder III Pro Arctic, its beam is 4,000 percent brighter than Wicked Lasers’ next most-intense laser, the $2000 Sonar II Burner, yet the new device costs only $200.

The Arctic is listed as Class 4, or the most dangerous class of laser. It is derived from a home theater projector and packs a full watt (W) into its sleek confines. “That’s an awful lot of power,” said Anibarro, and he noted that this laser “could injure someone a mile away.” – [source]