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Start Your Day Right With A Daft Punk Laser Bubble Party
Lasers, bubbles, edge-tracking, and Daft Punk are all pretty awesome in their own separate ways, but put together, they can put one one hell of a useless, random, but awesome show.
Making Your Laser A Flashlight Is The Lamest Way To Make It Useful
Wicked Lasers has made a name for itself by building incredibly powerful handheld lasers that it’s still legally able to sell to the public. At the top of the heap is the Wicked Lasers Arctic which blasts forth a full watt of focused blue light. But when you tire of getting in trouble with the cops you can now easily convert it into a bright white flashlight.
This Dead Space Plasma Cutter Blinds And Burns With Lasers Instead
Apparently, today’s theme is dangerous DIY props, because, as a follow-up to the frightening 80,000-volt Thor hammer, we now have an equally terrifying replica of the Dead Space Plasma Cutter. As far as prop design and attention to detail go it’s beautiful, but the use of a pair of 1500-milliwatt burning blue lasers has us cautious about recommending this as a DIY.
Wow, It Looks Like The Military Is Shooting Lasers Now
Is this a picture of a soldier shooting lasers against the night sky? How did they make the beams bend? They twist and turn like bolts from a Tesla coil! Sadly, no. It’s just a fantastic picture of a Marine launching a PL-87 Stinger Missile at a flying drone in a training exercise. It’s so gorgeous.
Laser-Cut MacBook Lids Are More Stunning Than Stickers
Visit any tech-heavy conference and you’re bound to find a sea of MacBooks covered in clever decals playing up the glowing Apple logo on the lid. But a sticker only offers so much customisation; if you really want your hardware to stand out you need to take things to the next level with a custom-cut Uncover replacement lid.
Aussie Company’s Space Junk Solution: Blast It With Lasers
Shooting old satellites and other orbiting debris with lasers is a topic of ongoing discussion — one even Australia’s found itself involved in. But shooting doesn’t necessarily mean destroying, according to one local aerospace company on the forefront of the problem.
Laser Forest Will Make You Hallucinate Without Drugs
Imagine wandering through a thicket of trees on a breezy night. Can you hear the canopy rustling above your head? Now look up and all you see are trees blasting green lasers into the sky like the Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular.
Watch A Navy Laser Gun Blast A Drone Right Out Of The Sky
It may sound like sci-fi, but lasers are definitely the future of war. As are drones. So what could be better than to see them go up against each other in a blaze of explosive glory? Looks like in the rock-paper-scissors game of modern combat, laser beats drone.
Watch A Laser Light Glass Bottles On Fire
The idea behind this video is pretty simple; it’s a laser igniting black flash paper to spark fire inside a bottle. But the execution of it is just mesmerising.
