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Private: FlashPoint Mini-Microwave Torch

Started by dponce80 · 8 months ago

By Andrew Liszewski
I came across this unique ‘flashlight’ over at bookofjoe who found it in the Financial Times How To Spend It magazine. (I’m assuming that’s where the scan came from.) But instead of lighting your way down a dark corridor, ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • Finally a sure fire way to give people both cancer and third degree burns from a somewhat safe distance.
  • Sounds like BS to me.

    Microwave ovens depend on the reflections of the metal walls to build up standing waves.

    And I don't think the governments (at least not the Western ones) would sanction the production of a device that could cause microwave burns and cancer.

    Probably just some bozos Photoshop dreaming or an art student's made-up ad presentation.
  • it looks more like just a heating lamp from a buffet table, put into a flashlight body
  • This wouldn't work (has even been tested by Mythbusters, they tried to cook a chicken with a radar dish) and would be dangerous as hell. Besides, you batteries wouldn't last a minute.
  • ITS A SPOOF!!!
  • Not a spoof as it says at original link:

    via James Ferguson's "Pat Pending" feature in today's Financial Times "How To Spend It" magazine]

    Its the "patent pending" part that gives it away, this is a concept which has not been produced.
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