http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100616/tod-deadly-star-wars-lightsabre-sells-on-870a197.html

Seems fairly dangerous to me.

Who in their right mind would buy that knowing full well it can give you cancer?

There's the worrying part, most of the people interested are either A)Not in their right mind or B)too stupid to live.

Individuals should be banned from owning one of those.

Perfect for fighting zombies, I must get one of these.

Why? If a person dies from it, that is their own fault. And if a person kills another with it, that's murder. But it still requires an idiot to do that.


I'll arm my golem with one.

Uhh its... sort of like what if it drops and its on and goes spiraling out of control creating a death light show as its beam goes spinning around until it stops. Yea, not something you should have unless you have it for a purpose, are trained in it, and are not a [censored] dumb ass. Hence the training, and of course regulated. For all intents and purposes it may as well be a military grade weapon.

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It is a laser, and not a contained thing. That means it just goes on unless they found a way to limit that, but then it could easily be modified to re extend the range to several miles. And if your really good you might be able to take away the visible light. You would have an instant death sniping weapon that no one would ever see and would be untraceable. Now put this in the hands of your average idiot.

Now just make it bigger, order to melt armor off from tanks :nod:


Then we need to invent Myomers and Gyroscope/Neurohelmet. And we have Battlemechs :nod:

Me wants it! :nod:

This is just a high powered laser that wishes it was lightsaber.

does it come attachable to a RIS rail system?
Snap it to my M4

These things will replace current 40mm grenade launchers in near future.

What was that? ￡135?

Just great.

*Buys*

Just don't take one into a hall of mirrors...

I can think of at least one person this should never be in the hands of, a UFO hokerr that shines lasers on planes and post videos on the youtubes.

Well, now we have our hoverboards, holograms, cloaking devices, flying cars AND our lightsabers. Its like there was this huge breakthrough in future technology in the last five years.

What's with all the outrage?

I don't see how this is more dangerous then lets say firecrackers.

One of my friends blew his hand a while ago with a firecracker, when i was a kid, that stuff got in my eye.

Tough i was fine and never used fireworks/crackers again.

That's why there are rules about how much gunpowder and all that is allowed in firecrackers.
And it's illegal to buy fireworks from other countries and bring it here, because they aren't as 'safe' as Dutch legal fireworks.

With this laser however, you could wreak havoc.

Still not quite as effective as a shovel

Want!

The only bad part is the cancer. And blinding people instantly. And the chance of the laser activating in your pocket and burning a hole in your pants.

Read about this in the news paper yesterday morning. I have to say that how easy it is to obtain is cause for concern -- It's effectively a lethal weapon with no restrictions on ownership. Just imagine what would happen when the street gangs of england figure out its just as easy, if not easier, to obtain one of these instead of an illegal fire arm.

Still pretty awesome though -- I don't doubt that it will be incorporated into the military at some point, or at least something of a similar effect will.

The trouble is that the only people who would be interested in such a thing probably don't have the capacity to use it intelligently.

YOu know, I could have sworn I heard about some crowd control weapon that fired (microwaves?) at you, making you want to jump out of the firing range due to severe discomfort.

I'd honestly buy one, it would be a cool one to even just had on display. Of course I like the Zombie idea that Peace had.

There's two types, actually. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4857417, as you mentioned, and also something known as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKl_sTh0oHE&fmt=18 - a high-frequency sound that can only be heard (mostly) by those under 25, used to disperse lingering youth crowds (predominantly in the UK) through sheer discomfort of the constant ringing/buzzing sound.