DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts 284
An anonymous reader writes "It doesn't get cooler than this — a German hacker put together a 1MW laser pistol capable of shooting straight through a razor blade with a single pulse. Quoting: 'Fitted with a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, it fires off a 1 MW blast of infrared light once the capacitors have fully charged. The duration of the laser pulse is somewhere near 100ns, so he was unable to catch it on camera, but its effects are easily visible in whatever medium he has fired upon.'" Update: 03/17 18:22 GMT by T : Too bad; turns out it's "only" 1KW, rather than 1MW. I still want one.
Sweet (Score:3, Funny)
Sweet. How long does it take to charge? IMMA FIRING MY LAZORS PEW PEW PEW
HAN PUNCHED FIRST! (Score:2, Funny)
Now the next time I'm in Mos Eisley I can take care of that Guido problem.
I think Snookie would be more interested in a UV laser.
Re:Finally (Score:2, Funny)
It's Greedo no Guido - he's Rodian not Italian.
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
now the bigger question...
Did he add a sound modulator that makes the PEW sound every time he squeezes the trigger?
Re:Wrong power (Score:4, Funny)
panda eats, shoulds, and leaves?
Re:HAN PUNCHED FIRST! (Score:5, Funny)
Not sure which is more sad ... the fact that you know that, or that you think we care. ;-)
Re:Wrong power (Score:5, Funny)
Re:infrared? bogus. (Score:5, Funny)
Stormtroopers are excellent marksmen - what you see depicted in those Rebel propaganda videos is a tactic called "herding". Funnily enough the makers of the propaganda videos never show what happens after the stormtroopers have herded the scruffy nerf-herder rebels into their trap...
Yeah, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:infrared? bogus. (Score:4, Funny)
That's exactly what I always say!
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