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  • Kouroth · 3 years ago
    Do you need some sort of permit to own one of these? In the USA?
  • Will · 3 years ago
    DAMN!! That thing is bright!
    It might be worth mentioning though that the little toy laser you get from the drug/pet/liquor store is about .5mW or about 1/4 of 1% of this thing.
    I really am surprised you can get your hands on one without being in the military or law enforcement etc...
  • bigpunn · 3 years ago
    Why the hell would someone pay $1000 so they can light a match in 20 seconds from 3 feet away?

    Plus, a little Google indicated these things are actuall illegal. I found a link that says customs is automatically confiscating these things at the border and another that goes to a warning letter speficially declaring the company produces illegal products and threatenting fines.

    Warning Letter: http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/g5694d.htm

    Import Ban: http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia9504....
  • bigpunn · 3 years ago
    illegal in the USA, anyways. Not sure about Canada.
  • Wallis · 3 years ago
    We operate a 527nm, 120mW laser for research purposes, and have had to jump through hoops with the FAA in order not to blind pilots. In other words, we operate at 60% of the power that you shot up, and we're worried. Worried enough to spend several thousand dollars on prevention mechanisms.

    These aren't toys, as you state, and should only be operated by trained personnel. They ESPECIALLY shouldn't be pointed skywards. Or anywhere except at a beam stop, for that matter.

    And you might want to watch that spot on your skin for cancer later on. (Not joking - that amount of collimated light is bad news for EVERY part of your body.)
  • vincent · 3 years ago
    reminds me of the flashlight lasers in Larry Niven's sci fi novels, the known space universe, with the ringworld and the kzinti. All you need to do to make it like the one in the novel is to add a controllable lens to change between "kill" and illuminate (that would be a diverging lens, changing the laser beam into a cone). And also, you need to ramp up the power to make it as lethal as a gun.
  • Anonymous · 3 years ago
    Extrememly poor review, i really have no idea why your alex rank is so high when your reviews are so shit and short!!!
  • Bruce · 3 years ago
    David, i just got the laser, it is totaly sick, tonight we are promoting a Sound Tribe Sector Nine concert at the House of Blues in Orlando this toy ought to be a whole lot of FUN. thanks again bruce g
  • Sean · 3 years ago
    God listen to all you cry babies, oh you'll burn your eye out, it's to much power for any person on the street to have. you'll get skin cancer!
    This is the problem with the U.S. all these Fing
    liberals taking all are toys away, like where a bunch of little children misbehaving...what ever happened to personal responsibility? I own this laser, and several others from Wicked, and a little common sence...not much just a little, will tell you that these, or any other IIIa or IIIb lasers are not kiddy toys to just point willy-nilly at what ever you please! I am just gonna say in simple terms... If you don't like the song, turn the station. Don't bitch to me about how bad it sounds. It's my life not yours!
  • David · 3 years ago
    Yay Sean! I agree with you - it's all about personal responsibility. But liberal whiners and cry babies don't know what that is because they've never had to exercise any. They want their government to step in and tell them and everyone else what they should and shouldn't do. Bah!
    I'm going to wickedlasers.com right now and buying one for myself! And yes, Crybaby Wallis, I will be responsible with it and not shine it where it's not supposed to be shined. I don't need anyone to tell me that. But later I'm gonna run with scissors! Haw!
  • Pavel · 3 years ago
    Yeah.. By some more powerful item can be killed an animals or anything else.
    A laser gun made us free more ?
  • Templar · 2 years ago
    *shakes head at the whining over a laser*
    People should be allowed to own dangerous things if they want to, as long as they treat it with respect. The only time that it should be "taken away" is if they are proved to be unable to handle it.
    ...Reminds me of BG2:Soa, you need to buy the right to use magic ^_^
  • Eamonn · 2 years ago
    I own a 75mw laser from that sight and photograph it alot and for those who watched that movie if you were realy there you would nearly die of a HEART ATTACK!!! That is so powerful you could swear that the beam was actualy solid and you could touch it and when you thied your skin would char black and you would also go blind. Now for anybody who think there bad well they are and thats why we like playing with them so go die in a hole!!! = )...
  • Anonymous · 2 years ago
    holy...err....crap!...es..i said crap instead of shi....nevermind...anyways
    i want this laser for the sole purpose of lighting my bong with it.
  • Anonymous · 2 years ago
    errr....actually....i broke my bong quite a while ago......i smoke joints now
    i wanna light my joints with this piece of highpowered weaponery!
  • Matt · 2 years ago
    Lol I actually just got done lighting my bong.
    I have used a magnifying glass and sunlight before... Smoothest hit lol...
  • Robinh · 2 years ago
    The video looks more like a torch light rather than a laser beam
  • yallsuk · 2 years ago
    i dont no y u all r saying that people shouldnt have them. how many people r stupid enuff to blind people with them. and skin cancer? the wavelengths and light that cause cancer have nothing to do with lasers. depending on the makeup of this fine piece of equiptment it may use things like neon, helium or a suped lightbulb. if those caused cancer then there would be alot less of the things that openly use them around.
  • Grant · 2 years ago
    Personal responsibility? All of you have said that phrase have included some kind of implication that you bought these lasers to play with them. You spent 2000 U.S. dollars to play with an extremely powerful laser, and you refer to personal responsibility. Congratulations, I hope you get first place if the Darwin awards come around again.
  • speakingphoto · 1 month ago
    Actually,I don't like their design,and I buy a green laser pointer from here.