Spyder III: REAL lightsabre!

Klingon Hamlet

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Built with the blue-laser diode of a dismantled Casio projector, the $200 Spyder III Pro Arctic is the world's most powerful portable laser. It can permanently blind you and set your skin—or anything else, really—on fire almost instantly.




"With greater power comes the need for greater responsibility." That's actually what Wicked Lasers, the mad geniuses behind the Spyder III, wrote to us in an email describing this terrifying piece of technology. They wanted to make one thing very clear: this is not merely a laser pointer, and it's certainly not a toy. What it is, really, is a weapon.

The diodes in Casio's new mercury-free Green Slim projectors apparently allow for unprecedentedly powerful portable lasers, and Wicked Lasers has gleefully harvested them for the 1 Watt Spyder III. Comparing it to the $2000 Sonar, the company's reigning portable laser powerhouse, Wicked Lasers explains that the blue Spyder III laser is 2000 times brighter to the human eye, and, at $200, 1/10th the price.

Wicked Lasers is throwing in a free pair of safety glasses with the purchase of a Spyder III, which might make wielding one marginally safer, but just writing this post has left me terrified enough to stay as far away from these things as possible. For a few weeks, anyway, until our review unit gets here.

AWESOMEEEEEEE!

Dr. Baltar

As cool as this is, and as dangerous as this is.
Can someone tell me what the practical applications of this is?

- Off Topic, I know, but just curious.

BopNiblets

Dr. Baltar wrote: »

Can someone tell me what the practical applications of this is?

Cuttin' up fools who hassle your new buddies in bars.

Klingon Hamlet

Dr. Baltar wrote: »

As cool as this is, and as dangerous as this is.
Can someone tell me what the practical applications of this is?

- Off Topic, I know, but just curious.

Fighting with daddy.

dyl10

Dr. Baltar wrote: »

As cool as this is, and as dangerous as this is.
Can someone tell me what the practical applications of this is?

- Off Topic, I know, but just curious.

Striking down old men in cloaks.

Rascal77

Cutting peoples hands off.

Klingon Hamlet

Making a smelly tent out of a dead beast's belly.

"Urgh...I thought they smell bad...on the outside."

Dr. Baltar

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

Making a smelly tent out of a dead beast's belly.

"Urgh...I thought they smell bad...on the outside."

Rascal77 wrote: »

Cutting peoples hands off.

dyl10 wrote: »

Striking down old men in cloaks.

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

Fighting with daddy.

BopNiblets wrote: »

Cuttin' up fools who hassle your new buddies in bars.

NERDS! :mad:

evil-monkey

I wonder if they offer a double-bladed hilt...