Posts tagged with ‘lasers

Watch a US military laser gun shoot a drone out of the sky

The US military has been experimenting pretty heavily lately with laser cannons that can use the power of lasers to pew pew missiles and aircraft straight out of the sky with a quickness.

Popping 100 balloons in a row with one badass laser

Using a Wicked Spyder III laser, this guy pops 100 balloons lined up like dominos. I could have watched this for 10,000 balloons.

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Wicked Lasers makes the closest thing possible right now to a real lightsaber

Wicked Lasers is good at making products that attract tech geek attention, and a few days ago, they announced the Lasersaber, a powerful laser encased in a 32” polycarbonate blade. While it won’t cute through steel, it’s still pretty badass.

LaserSabers are energized by the light of Wicked Lasers, harnessing the power of the force. The LaserSaber features an ultra smooth magnetic gravity system that can “power up” and “power down” the blade.

The LaserSaber maintains its radiant brilliance even when the lights are on. The LaserSaber is interchangeable and will attach to any Spyder 3 model. The aircraft grade aluminum hilt ensures secure attachment of the blade. Due to the extreme powers of the Spyder 3, only operate while wearing LaserShades in a controlled environment.

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Finally, the world has a shark with an attached laser beam

While this laser beam isn’t on the shark’s fricking head, it is firmly attached to its dorsal fin with a temporary clip. Why did someone go and clip a powerful green laser to a shark? Because they can. Duh.

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Fun with science: Using a laser to ignite a firecracker inside a balloon without destroying the balloon

It’s scientific sorcery!

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London Olympics replacing air guns in the pentathalon with laser pistols. Pew pew?

During the shooting portion of the pentathalon at this year’s summer Olympics in London, athletes will be shooting with laser pistols instead of airguns. The new laser pistols are calibrated to feel and recoil just like an airgun, only they’re safer and cheaper. Safe and cheap. That’s exactly what I want in my sporting competition.

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Scatter laser camera technology can see around corners

This video shows how scientists at the MIT Media Lab reconstruct a hidden object using scattered laser light. Future applications may include seeing in dangerous or inaccessible locations, such as inside machinery with moving parts, or in highly contaminated areas.

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National Ignition Facility fires record 2 megajoule laser shot. That’s a lot of “lasers”

On 15 March, the 192 laser beams of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, fired a record 1.875 megajoule shot into the laser’s target chamber that was focused to a final 2.03 megajoules. The shot, which was just a demonstration, nonetheless represents a milepost in an effort to get past the break-even point  in coaxing fusion energy from a tiny frozen fuel pellet.

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Afternoon music: Laser etching machine plays “Still Alive” from Portal while it does its laser etching machine

Singing or humming while you’re working is helpful, even when you’re just a lowly etching machine. Perhaps even more so if you’re just a lowly etching machine.

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Lasers plus a crushing magnetic field may make fusion more efficient

Fusion is awesome stuff, but currently it isn’t efficient in that it takes way too a whole hell of a lot of energy to end up with less than you had to begin with. But with the magic of a magnetic field and “lasers”, scientists could sustain a fusion reaction long enough to get an actual energy return. Hooray!

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UK police testing a laser rifle that can temporarily blind

As if riot police don’t already have enough fun toys at their disposal, cops in the UK are currently testing “laser” rifles that when pointed at someone, can temporarily stun and blind them. 

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