Forget your Lead Dispensers - LaserSaber is available!!!

[Quark]

Hey Gang,
Why bother with AR's or M1's or AK's??

The Geniusus at Wicked Laser have release a LaserSaber adapter that attaches to the tip of their SpiderIII series lasers.....

Why be John Wayne when you can be Luke Skywalker... Check this out:

hxxp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/meet-lasersaber-a-lightsaber-clone-of-spectacular-intensity/


Meet LaserSaber, a Lightsaber Clone of Spectacular Intensity

• By Jon Phillips
• Email Author
• May 4, 2012 |
• 12:31 pm |
• Categories: Miscellaneous, Toys and Games

The 32-inch LaserSaber is a polycarbonate attachment for Wicked Laser's Spyder 3 series lasers. Images: Wicked Lasers

Almost 10 years ago, the world scoffed at Star Wars Kid, but hardcore LARP nerds knew he was on to something: Lightsaber-inpired pantomime is damn good fun. And now would-be Ghyslain Razas can ditch poor lightsaber proxies like broom handles and marginally saber-like toys, and go straight for the LaserSaber, a seriously baddass laser device attachment from Wicked Lasers.
Wicked Lasers already made news this week by sponsoring a shark-with-frickin-lasers stunt off the coast of the Bahamas. And now, in honor of Star Wars Day this Friday, the company has released the $100 LaserSaber, which attaches to the Spyder 3-class green and blue lasers it already sells.
The LaserSaber threads directly onto the cap of your Spyder 3 laser.

According to Wicked Lasers CEO Steve Liu, the LaserSaber is a 32-inch polycarbonate wand fused to an aircraft-grade aluminum hilt. The wand screws directly into the company’s existing Spyder 3 lasers, whose industrial design already looks suspiciously similar to that of a Star Wars lightsaber. The similarity raised the ire of Lucasfilm in 2011, but George and company quickly backed off from their trademark challenge.
We haven’t had a chance to see (let alone test) the LaserSaber in person, but Wicked Lasers says its lightsaber proxy can smoothly light up and light down just like the lightsabers do in all the Star Wars movies (see video below for a demo). The key to this magic: an “an ultra smooth magnetic gravity system” that unsheaths and sheaths the luminescent blade.

Liu explained how it works in an e-mail to Wired: “The laser energy that enters the LaserSaber is first diffused by a built-in optical element. Then the diffused laser enters the internal diffuser tube, which distributes the laser’s energy evenly along the blade. Inside the diffuser tube, there’s a metal sphere that’s suspended permanently inside. This sphere’s movement, caused by gravity, creates the beam-grow effects. There’s a magnet hidden in the tip of the blade, which causes the ball to magnetically lock in place. The magnetic lock can be disengaged by bumping the S3 laser with sufficient force.”
Check out the video. The effect is quite remarkable.
The LaserSaber’s tube is made of 1/8-inch thick walled polycarbonate. It sounds like a durable-enough material, but Wicked Laser cautions against saber-on-saber swordplay. Even more importantly, safety goggles expressly designed for protection against intense laser light should be worn when operating the LaserSaber.
Indeed, the Spyder III series lasers operate between a considerably intense 50 milliwatts to a crazy-dangerous full watt of laser power. At this power intensity, a Spyder III laser is arguably much more harmful to human body tissue than the golfball retriever that Star Wars Kid used in his video.


YMMV, do not burn your eyes out, do not remove tags under penalty of Galactic Empire Law....



You have been warned,


Q

[Anti-Liberal]

I bought one of these for my stepson last Christmas. It cost me about $210 with the sound board but it is quite the cool toy. Go to 3:20 into the video to go directly to what the sword can do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HWmjoF2l0


BTW...these guys have an awsome small business that hit paydirt, OBO's worst kind of people.

[OddOne]

Okay, class IV lasers are not toys.

[milkydoo]

Very cool. I do believe that eventually, technology will give us the real thing....for better or for worse.

[TECH32]

Me want.

[Red Baron]

"Johnny! What happened to the cat?"

[Millwright]

Is this enough laser to disable the sensors on nvg's?

[NBCsurvivor]

Is this enough laser to disable the sensors on nvg's?

Yes. AND the soft tissue and bone behind the NVG.

[twincougars]

Wasn't there a thread about these lasers a year or so ago? They used the lasers from, I think it was a Canon digital projector. IIRC, people who ordered them never got them. Is this the same outfit? Has anyone you know actually gotten one and tried it (I mean, burning holes through plywood at 100 yards, etc.)?

[medic38572]

"Johnny! What happened to the cat?"

Rofl

[buttie]

When the real thing arrives it will probably be plasma based instead of laser. Plasma's can be moved around magnetically so you could literal;y have a beam that project 3' and then came back to the hand piece to be grounded and complete the circuit. A plasma would burn through anything it toutched too.

[Quark]

Wow, Im gettin dizzy.....

My thread was banished from Main and now it has magically reappeared with no explanation......

These Lasers are real and they are scary....Range unknown....
Will light up clouds quite easily but will give up your ground position.

attached is pic of dogs toy getting laser treatment in dark hallway.

Peace and Joules,

Q