• It is a bit later for me to see this lightsaber. I have got a 150mW green laser pointer with free shipping at http://www.highlasers.com/. I am just worrying about its high power, while the beam of this lightsaber is pretty wonderful.

• i am quite agree. keep distance from the laser pointer. it's not a good thing to close to a high power laser.

• laser is really very dangerous once it is in the wrong hand. keep the laser pointer away from kid is very necessary.

• While this is cool, it isn't really a light-saber. Its a hand-held laser which is an optical device. A light-saber is a contained singularity, and we are decades away from anything like that technology. Extreme caution should be used with this device. The next StarWars kid could easily blind himself without extreme precautions.

• I'm completely in favour of this device with one proviso - ownership comes with a waver that any member of public can gouge out one of the owner's eyes with a rusty spoon at any time.

• The eye focuses a laser beam into a very small spot on the retina. The way a laser blinds is by destroying small patches of the retina each time a beam enters the eye. Not all in a go. Just as you don't usually see your optic nerve blind spot, laser injury is not necessarily obvious until you destroy so many rods and cones that the brain can't fill in the blind spots. Insidious.

• Well, that isn't necessarily true... Here: http://cgi.ebay.com/250mw-Blue-Violet-Laser-Upgrade-Module-405nm-Burning-/290442888223?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item439fbec41f and here: http://cgi.ebay.com/High-Power-Laser-Module-400-mw-Cutting-Burning-/180446582315?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a0374562b I promise you, these things can do some SERIOUS damage... These are what we use to make CNC machines (the machines that are used to machine materials [including metals] from computer control)... ok... now I am going to go do some community service as penance for the geek equivalent of 'giving dynamite to teenagers'

• And also, I just realize that if this thing actually MAKES the sounds, either the pew of the phaser or the shhhhhnnnngggg of a lightsaber, all arguments against it become invalid.

• The thing is, I'm not worried about a little kid getting hurt. I'm picturing two older men, enthralled with the nostalgia of old trying to relive their trekkie/starwars days. "Ok bob. You be scotty, I'll be Han solo. Noq, you set your phasers toOMFGWHATTHEHELLISWRONGWITHYOUICANTSEESHITOUTOFMYRIGHTEYE!!!?!?!!"

• I need one of these.

• We need more stuff like this. They'll help advance the human race be weeding out the stupid and clumsy.

• what will happen if this got into the hands of ANY disgruntled worker/crazy person?

• I want to get one but I know I will only use it for evil..

• Jesus...you kids are really hung up on the whole blinding thing. Maybe they should just re-name this the Oedipus Laser for Bad Mother Fuckers(pun intended)

• No, seriously, is this a hoax? Because the ability to blind people from hundreds of yards away seems like a fantastically fucking stupid thing to A) sell and B) think is cool.

• scarier than crazy kids with one of those is a crazy fan fic author >:D yup, I just bought myself one! thanks Rob >:D

• Can I join you in your quest for world domination ?

• This is a lawsuit waiting to happen......

• https://lasers.llnl.gov/ This station is now the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it...

• It's just someone else he can sue.

• but don't worry, Darwin will arrive to collect you soon if you think this is comparable to a lawn dart.

• you understand that laser pointers don't actually blind you instantly or burn your skin off though right?

• this is a little too scary for me to joke about. id really hate to be blinded and set on fire walking from the bus to work on some random act of violence bullshit.

• Do you mean to say that you "have a bad feeling about this"? You are vastly outvoted by the millions of civil-action attorneys who think this is a RAD idea. Also: lucrative. Plus, apparently the readership of TR is marginally in favor of owning a laser-pointer-on-steroids, for some reason. This would be the perfect tool for both entertaining a cat and then setting it on fire afterward. Not that the kind of person who wants to own a light saber would ever do something so juvenile and irresponsible.

• Natural selection FTW

• Yep, I just bought one. Now I just have to buy a shark to mount it on.

• Instantly and permanently blind? Imagine if some asshole gets one and just blinds everyone he can with it! Fuck that. Make it illegal.

• Personally, none. However, having worked in a Gamestop, I can attest that there are PLENTY of parents out there who won't bother to check out just what it is darling perfect little Bradley decided he wanted for his birthday.

• What little kid do you kow with 200$?

• in "reality" a light saber would be made out of a plasma stream not laser. Capping the length at which light travels is probably impossible. Plasma on the other hand...

• let me get this straight, for 200 dollars, some ignorant little kid can pick this up? I'm sorry but its hard to get excited by the prospect of being blinded on my way to work because a bunch of kids thought it'd be a good idea to stand above an overpass and point the laser into the windshields of moving cars

• And now I am one step closer to world domination!

• yep, up until he shoots his eye out with it. then he could look cool with a metal eye patch.

• Dude...some of us have been playing with laser pointers for years and havent managed to blind ourselves or anyone else. That kind of shit falls into the law-darts catagory....if you're stupid enough to kill yourself or someone else,the worlds just better off without you. Darwin FTW !!!

• I'm sure a person blinded by one of these would be stunned.

• I cant wait until one of you blinds yourself on this crap. "No its cool, we're jedis, hit us up on facebook,lol roglflfoma" etc. Regardless of how cool this is, you can never grow your eyes back.

• i need this. i dont have any idea what i would do with it and i would probably never give it power but just knowing i owned it would make me happy. -wonders if you could use the heat to pop jiffy pop from across the room- it would be like acting in my own small scale version of real genius. im going to obsess about this idea for a while

• Personally, I got a good laugh from your comment, subtle sarcasm is the best. LOL

• I have been drooling over this for the past few days-I NEED THIS SO DAMN BAD!!!! I think I'm gonna order one soon,as I fully expect this to be taken off the market once the lawsuits start.

• That kit is for a 150mw laser. If you guys are determined to go crazy, you can buy up to a 2W handheld laser system here: http://www.laserglow.com/int-handheld.htm

• Can you imagine how much fun could Star Wars Kid have playing with that thing?

• Can you imagine how much fan could Star Wars Kid have playing with that thing?

• <i>* wonders how much stuff he'll have to buy to make a Death Star laser.... *</i>

• Flashing back to the SNL Amazin Laser commercial...which apparently does not exist online anywhere. :(

• Because I love Rob and the rest of you guys at TR soooo much, here is a way to save $80-$100: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5erjj6aS5Ws&feature=player_embedded You can buy the supplies here for $99 or less: http://laserdiy.com/ You can put your laser in a cigarette lighter like in the video, or I'm sure most of you have toy/prop lightsabres lying around the house. Make your own.

• I think is actually a really BAD idea.

• That's a joke, by the way. Using the less-than sign as an arrow indicator in front of the word "joke" apparently gets flagged as an HTML tag. Who knew?

• Pfft, what are you some kind of "Nanny-State" bleeding heart? <-----JOKE!

• Flaming, blind zombies are perhaps more dangerous than regular ones.

• buyer beware?

• I just bought 3 so I can mow my lawn faster.

• aaaaaaaaaaand wickedlasers is down. great.

• I think you meant to say blaster.

• IF this is real we should all buy one NOW before they get recalled. They will be more valuable once they are illegal. Also it will ensure that when the Zombie/Robot Apocalypse comes we will have better weapons to defend ourselves with, rather than weak-ass guns (or cricket paddles) which will prove ineffective against cyborgs or the undead.

• nice viral stunt.

• Uhm... isn't lasers already classified by strength, grouped into nice little classes, and restricted for sale if they are too strong? Or am I hallucinating?

• I have to agree, since the "beam" isn't steady it is less like a sword than something that shoots, aka, phaser. But apparently one set exclusively to kill.

• Yea, cause you know how fast congress is with this shit. Or anything for that matter.

• Seconded. I have a design for an actual light saber. Basically you have something like this one from Wicked with a titanium telescpopic concave mirror, feeding the light back into itself. We'll see if the wizards that be will pick up on this.

• You know, lasers, depending on their overall power, can go VERY long distances. They would be even more accurate than any long-range sniper rifle, as bullets are affected by gravity & wind and thus reply on the skill of the shooter. This will get declared illegal VERY quickly. If reporting this gains any traction online, someone's going to have Congress on it pretty quickly, especially if there's even a whiff of military application...

• well, this reinstates my life-long ambition to rob a bank while being rediculously awesome

• Sorry to bust up in here with my Trekkieness, but this thing is more like a motherfucking PHASER, not a lightsaber.

• no doubt the moment some one winds up getting hurt by the thing it will be declared illegal . and proably wind up recalled. though that proves star wars fans are one step closer to the fiction of star wars becoming fact. not to mention the government could see those things and when a real lightsaber is made decide it is too dangerous for civilian use just military use.

• Available to purchase by anyone?! That's the dumbest fucking idea I've ever heard. I guarantee some uninformed parent will buy their kid a 'toy' lightsaber for Christmas and be surprised when the child combusts.

• it's make sense to make it look like a toy, given how dangerous it is; how else are kids going to know to stay away from it?

• Hmm, trying to buy one.... Looks like the site already crashed, or it's a hoax. Probably just melted their server with all us wannabe Jedis (or super villians) logging on!

• That's pretty cool, however irrational it may be. A "real" lightsaber would be almost useless for self defense or offense, in a world saturated with deadly, accurate, and powerful projectile weapons. It will have to wait until archaic firearms are replaced with harmless laser blasters that only do damage to empire issued trooper armor.

TotalComments: 67