Bono Gets Laser Jacket, Public Probably Gets Eye Damage

kanye = jealous

jcous

now THAT would be cool in 3D

Kyle Hammond

Never really listened to BONO.

His music SUCKS!!! Damn!!!

Blaxpear

@BrAff:

nicely done

@PrimitiveWallflower:

I agree! And I am speaking as a Radiohead fan myself. Or perhaps if a smaller band like the Animal Collective did this, people would be splooging on their stomachs.

I think part of the problem is many people haven't experienced a proper stadium show. They are about spectacle. Part music, part traveling circus. U2 have always been about the grandiose. Look all the way back to the Zoo TV tour.

scaught78

@Toastie: Negative. He just cures the blind, like any regular Messiah.

if we all wore sunglasses all the time like Bono there would be no problem with this....

Frizzaldo...

@sir_pantsalot: Yep, U2 is the most overrated band ever!

Francisco Galárraga

@smcallah: I want to make a jacket like this but with the lasors that can light cigarettes. This way I can go to a bar and tell the ladies to all get out their smokes.
Man I would be the coolest.

xredgambit

Think i have to say..... Blue Man Group did it better.... and in a non-retinal-frying way.

ElementalDragon

he really should've checked with rushdie and gibson before deciding on this...

Shane Orzechowski

This just solidifies how much of a 'tool' Bono really is.

That jacket may have been cool back in 1998 when they started selling those damn laser pointers...I guess his granny had a lot of time on her hands and sewed'em on to an old jacket of his...how sweet.

radiohead008

@sir_pantsalot: Exactly!

radiohead008

Kind of reminds me of Spies Like Us. beety beety beety...

@PaddyDugan: Something tells me if Thom Yorke were doing the same thing, Gizmodo would be jizzing all over itself now. And I say that as a huge Radiohead fan.

PrimitiveWallflower

Aren't we all so cool bagging on Bono and U2. Keep in mind young kiddies that almost every band you listen to today has been influenced by U2 in some shape or fashion. Any band that has been around this long and is still relevant must be doing something right.

As for the specific hate of Bono. Why is it that people hate a man that is either singing or helping to raise money for African relief. I help out for an African relief charity every year and I know that without Bono our charity wouldn't even exist.

As for the lasers, fucking cool. It is a stadium show man. What the fuck do you want, him to just stand there and pick his ass?!

scaught78

And just when I thought my hate for Bono/U2 couldn't get any more intense...

nickpadovani

Looks like an extravagant waste of money.

@bobojuice: Yea, I need to work on the accent some more. At least I got the walk down and that thing he does with his hair. :)

@alexvanduyn: LOL!!

Needs more SMOKE!!!!

trailingedge

Dammit why did you link to that Addy video??? You know how long it took me to stop watching that when it first came out? Now I just spend 20 minutes watching the thing over and over again.

It's what you don't see that intrigues you.

that didnt look cool.

redkamel

Aren't LEDs technically lasers?

encyclia

The only way he was going to attract more attention towards him was, of course, freekin lasers.

ridgecity

@PrimitiveWallflower: Good call; this sort of hating comes off as an attempt by the immature to appear sophisticated. "I'm way to cool for U2, man." Yeah, right; that's why people stand in line to see you.

PaddyDugan

@smcallah: debbie downer

and the lawsuits start flooding in. "oh, my eyes, my eyes", "pain and suffering", "visual damage for days", blah blah blah...

@sir_pantsalot:
On another note: Those lasers were made in China, at the cost of tens of chinese children's eyes.
A laser jacket is stupid... lasers in concerts are to be used as instruments:
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But nevermind lasers... but do elaborate on Addy's tits Jesus.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@thebear91: Half the haters probably already have tickets and rock out Achtung Baby to boot.

PrimitiveWallflower

Funny all of the haters are so vocal, but obviously he still sells out concerts.

They were trying to get the smoke across the stage, but the wind was taking it up and away. LOL

thebear91

@bobojuice: I read it as a combo of Caps-Lock language, phonetics, n a tiny bit of French, most spottable English appears to have been squeezed out.

@deanbmmv: i know he's irish. i was referring to the accent he had posted. read more british than irish. :P

@bobojuice: Irish

Finally! Definitive proof U2 totally blows.

dna

stupid

squishyalt

Great, so now we can go DEAF and BLIND at the same time.

So THAT'S why he's always wearing sunglasses. Those ugly things must be laser safety glasses!

nikko1221

haha, bono and his tarzan mic. look what happens at 2:20 :)))
u2, the HUGE nothing

Miklos Kiss

href="#c13989039">yardameus: AHHHHH My Anus!!!

@Voohoo: ...in all caps.

badhatharry

@alexvanduyn: Ahhhhhh My Ears!!!!!

@frigg: Bono's Brit-ish?

@Whydoesthisalwayshappentome: [blind] conooot cee waaaaat m tipingggkjl asdj opiqwe l slkdfj p[iouj sdl;kj f !!! HAHAHAHA

@Save me: I know I wish I were after hearing that version of Ultraviolet.

@Gruv: Wrong. You are hearing the Edge singing through a wearable mic that is on the right side of his face. If you watch the video to the end, he turns his head and you can see it.

shadowplay

@d★nger the pirate: no you see U2 has "The" Edge which according to The Edge is very important.

Greatest cat toy ever

Ryan N Wilcox

@Voohoo: good god why would you even joke like that. Would they be trying to out douche one another?

En0s0ne... Now with auto-tune commenting

... and Kanye isn't wearing this?

lltaeho

U2 have have had exactly 1 guitar riff for their entire career.

TonyRockyHorror

Great.

-he's Liberace and Cher wrapped up in one.

@Edge played guitar for u2. i'm excited to see how his alliance with chris jericho pans out, though.

God I hate bono. The edge can suck it too.

Colefo

@alexvanduyn: The goggles! They do nothing!

Jestermeister

Watch until 3:40 when they pump in the smoke. Looks cooler that way.

these are probably not the same type of lasers that can damage retnas. when i was in highschool i use to be heavily involved in laser tag and they actually used lasers, but they were a different class of lasers that didn't damage people's eyes (class 3 i think). so it is possible that bono's horrible fashion sense of a jacket could be using a safer type of lasers.

or he could be an ass and making people blind for fun.

victorkruger

Hilarious. Lip sync caught at 2:21 when he's hanging off the mic.

Gruv

@Dearhaw:

Oops, trigger happy.

"Having them on stage costume instead of automated robotics doesn't suddenly make them deadly"

Dearhaw

You guys need to get out more. Weak lasers have been featured at concert halls and nightclubs for.. like ever. Having them on stage costume instead of automated You can have your opinions about U2 (I loved them up to Rattle and Hum), but don't try to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Dearhaw

@alexvanduyn: And that jacket's pretty bad too.

I much as I hate Bono I love this jacket purely for the chance that I might blind "The EDGE" who I hate far more due to him being a terrible guitarist.

I know it's chic to bash Bono (complete with requisite South Park reference), but I think the stage on this tour looks incredible. The laser jacket... meh, not so much.

And wouldn't that jacket get hot after a while?

PrimitiveWallflower

Kanye's taking notes.

Voohoo

Does make me think of adding a disco ball to my cubicle. Hmmmm.

NurseDave

Only one word can sum up this: Spiffy!

@smcallah: Okay Mr. Literal

NurseDave

The Manhattan Children's Museum has lasers in their exhibits (musical harp, "put out the fire" etc) that children can stare right into (though they mostly don't). Anyone else think that's a problem?

Wow... does anyone else that the swinging microphone is maybe the most annoying stage prop ever? He looked like a drunk teenager playing on monkey bars...... Tarzan microphone = FAIL.

andrebasso

@Stephen N.: because there are lasers.

that jacket weighs in at an impressive 3.5 Courics

@Stephen N.: Because he is a freaking celebrity, he can do whatever he wants.

Was anyone else hoping that the microphone would come back and hit him in the head when he started throwing it?

Henry Timm

@alexvanduyn: Exactly what I was thinking.

People go to his concerts to see his antics (no one goes just for the music, Im serious) and he wants people to close their eyes instead?

Wot a douche.

@Toastie: I loled

John Eaton

Perfectly safe as long as he's using weak lasers. Blink reflex takes care of it.

sneakypoo

These lasers are not going to damage anyone's eyes at the distance he is performing from them on stage.

Maybe if they ran up to him and grabbed him, and then stared directly into one of the lasers without blinking for a few minutes, they might start to damage their eyes.

But when he's running around singing on stage several feet from some people, and a few hundred feet from most people, damage is not going to occur.

Unless you believe he has some Class 3 or Class 4 lasers on his jacket.

So now you can add blindness to deafness an attribute of your typical U2 fan.

LittleJon

Oi don wan n' fookin LEDs... OI SAID LAYZERS!
FOOKIN LAYZERS YE DIMWIT.
LEDs make moi bum look fat.
LAYZERS OI SAID!
GIT ME SUM FOOKIN LAYZERS!

@Toastie: Not yet, he has the habit of making people go deaf.

Emiat

@Toastie: Nah, he makes people wish they were deaf.

Cool jacket. Doesn't do anything to improve his horrible performance though.

@Kaiser-Machead: And followup!

Verbose headlines growing epidemic

Kaiser-Machead

Just when you think he and his music can't get any worse he goes and does something like this and proves us all wrong.

sir_pantsalot

@Kaiser-Machead: Thank Jebus, I thought it was annoying as hell that they did it in caps.

@bornonbord: Subsequent headline!

Following the enforcement of the Eugenics law of 2016, all hardware and software manufacturers have been effectively banned from including access to or use of caps lock, with the exception of short acronyms

Kaiser-Machead

Doesn't he already blind people?

News Headline From The Future:

"BONO ARRESTED FOR TAKING DOWN AIRPLANE AT OUTDOOR SHOW BY BLINDING PILOT WITH LASER JACKET"

And they let him do this...why?

Stephen N.

AHHHHHH MY EYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!