Hobbyist Builds Working Replica of Iron Man's Laser Gauntlet 78
Zothecula writes "Given that most real-life superheroes don't have the budget of Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne, you would assume that their gadgetry wouldn't be quite on par with what we're used to seeing in the movies. German cyber weapons hobbyist Patrick Priebe, however, has built his own working laser gauntlet... just like the one made famous by a certain Iron Man."
Not a guantlet (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not a guantlet. That is what is colloquially called a "cuff".
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That guy has way too much free time. ;-)
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AND...
Boy, I bet his mom's basement is just riddled with scorch marks.
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Wikipedia is not fact. Plus, all the items on that page include various amounts of hand protection. It's really not a gauntlet.
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That guy has way too much free time.
No, he doesn't, because he spends it all on projects like this!
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Guantlet is how someone not paying attention spells gauntlet. ;-)
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not to mention "ni hao," though i guess korea is kind of like china-lite, in terms of western assimilation.
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So where do you put it on the shark? (Score:4, Funny)
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make it bigger and fit on the outsides of it.
Hmm. (Score:5, Insightful)
Slight problem: Anyone who isn't wearing safety glasses is now blind, including innocent people. And you probably did more damage to everything around you than the bad guys. Ah, well... you are a superhero...
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that's just it
Iron man's laser cuts things.
All this will do is make people blind, maybe burn out a camera ccd.
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All this will do is make people blind, maybe burn out a camera ccd.
Or bring down a plane....
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Or bring down a plane....
Yes, by the power of photons generated from a lightweight low energy density battery, the plane will simply fall out of the sky on contact with it. No, I think not. Although there have been numerous cases of laser light causing pilots difficulty, no planes have yet fallen out of the sky and are unlikely to. It is, however, a safety issue -- prolonged or repeated exposure to the kinds of lasers people are shooting at the airplanes can lead to eye problems.
So I'm not saying it isn't a problem, just that it wo
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Builds like this prove that these lasers should be only sold and used by licensed handlers. Safety glasses are an absolute must, how is he going to demo this thing to a crowd? Will he warn them that if they even catch a reflection of the beam in their eyes they could lose retina real estate?
useless (Score:1)
Does everything geeky need to be "cyber"? (Score:5, Insightful)
cyber weapons hobbyist
Does the use of lasers/magnetic fields in gadgets convert them to "cyber"?
Re:Does everything geeky need to be "cyber"? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Cybernetic organism, a cheap watch over a human arm
Agreed: wearable machines make one at most cyberpunk [wikipedia.org] (a bit different from what cybernetics [wikipedia.org] mean)
but.... iron man doesnt shoot lasers.... (Score:5, Informative)
Iron man's suit makes use of the absurdly abundant energy produced by his arclight generator to produce high density plasma. His gauntlets are actually high density plasma thrustors. He uses them to fly with. Lasers just don't have that kind of specific impulse. Think more "plasma based jet port", and you are on the right track.
Sadly, you will discover that containing high density plasma isn't a walk in the park, and would make your containment system quite magnetically attractive to just about anything ferromagnetic. That's because to contain the plasma, you would need a bitchin strong magnetic field. Like what's inside an MRI machine.
It HAS to be high density plasma, because low density plasma thrustors don't have enough thrust either. (Work fine in outer space. Not so hot on the earth's surface.)
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But the new version looks cooler and has better animation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4&feature=player_embedded [youtube.com]
'em pissy small tanks.
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but then the new "crucio" replacement not only cost more and required more crew but did less damage.
Nah, you only think it does less damage because you aren't aware of the improvements in armor technology in the galaxy since the last war.
fortunately theres magnetic field blocking (Score:2)
macguffin device that blocks the magnetic fields
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Laser also is quite a bit faster than IM's shots, which you can see move.
Anyhow, editors, please don't use phrases like "... working laser gauntlet -- just like ...", unless it really works just like. It's just like in the same way as a flip phone is just like a Star Trek communicator -- a superficial resemblance unless actually used. If you mean awesome, say awesome; if you mean resembles, say resembles. Telling untruths is plusungood.
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Star Trek woefully underestimated computer technology, and over estimated starship technology. Not suprisingly. The world was enthralled by the space race, in the late 60s. No one cared about computers.
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Skip to 1:14. I'm no physicist but those look like lasers to me.
Re:but.... iron man doesnt shoot lasers.... (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you. The GP has absolutely no business on Slashdot if he can't even distinguish Iron Man's palm-mounted arsenal from his wrist-mounted arsenal. It brings shame upon the entire community.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZWzf3h50LU&t=1m13s [youtube.com]
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Back to replicating the Shark Repellent Bat-Spray!
We can already confuse goldfish. We're getting there!
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actually.... you know i don't believe you're correct. The arc reactor or whatever has to do with fusion. I would surmise that any micro fusion reactors would deal with alpha particles, not plasma directly. Maybe it creates quark-gluon plasma which is a completely different animal than high density plasma. It could be very low density yet much more highly charged than any high density plasma and could be controlled more easily with magnetic containment fields.
Legal battles ahead. (Score:2)
So...he's made his intent fairly clear that he intends to profit from this, even going so far as
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WTF are you talking about? What would the lawyers be descending for, to congratulate him for his basic grasp of entrepreneurial capitalism?
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He's so far past fucked he can't even catch a bus back to fucked.
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oooh.... I *LIKE* that metaphor. Mind if steal it?
Heh, it's already stolen from a fairly well-known software engineer/designer or such.
Working? (Score:3)
If by working you mean that it can flash blinky lights. And if you mean "just like the one made famous" to say it can scorch holes through a single sheet of the paper the comic is written on, then yes. It's just like Iron Man's laser cutter that can punch through several inches of solid steel.
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Hey! It popped some balloons at around 2:40 in the video. I saw it!
was a cooler one years ago (Score:1)
I am disappoint (Score:2)
I opened this newspost actually hoping that the guy somehow made a convenient, portable multi-kilowatt focused laser beam, and also solved cooling problems in one go.
That would have kept me a bit interested.
This tho ? Pure false advertising, it is as much (less actually) exciting than a 1 watt powered laser pointer. With todays technology, we could be building more content rich shinies, as opposed to form rich shinies. Form has its place, but as a nerd, I really prefer, and see beauty in, function, and the
Anybody else the read the headline as (Score:1)
Summary (Score:5, Funny)
A guy made something that sort of looks like Iron Man's gauntlet and behaves like Buzz Lightyear's. He won't tell you how he made it, but he might build one for you if you give him lots of money.
To quote an ancient meme... lame.
I'm not interested in the laser gauntlet (Score:1)
Make a working replica of the miniature fusion engine that powers the suit, and I'll be interested. :-)
Next Invention (Score:1)
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This was a lot of little things executed very well, not "mold a piece of plastic" around an off-the-shelf laser. The mechanism to tighten and lock the cuff around the arm was well designed, the lighting on the tightening switch was a nice touch, the servo motor and levers to raise the laser off the arm were well done, the fit and finish on all the exterior parts was flawless. It seems like all the critics here focus just on the functionality of the end product, a low-power off-the-shelf laser that can't cut
The marketing guys will be so jealous! (Score:2)
With one of these, I'll be a superhero at the next meeting. Can I get a chest-mounted powerpoint projector to go along with this?