That little hunk of frost-coated hardware in the photo is the Spyder III Pro Arctic blue handheld laser. It's being marketed as the closest thing to real-life Star Wars lightsaber ever. Because this $200 piece of Chinese gear can fry your retinas.
The product's sales spiel is pretty no-nonsense: "For the first time in history, direct blue laser diodes have now become available in the consumer market. The laser powered home theater projector is the first of a large family of audio and video media technology to feature direct blue diodes. Wicked Lasers took the direct blue laser diode components and made the world's first 445nm direct blue diode laser, the Arctic." Fascinating. And for those scientists among you it'll be doubly interesting, as the race to make cheap portable direct blue lasers has been long and hugely complicated--the physics of them has always seemed to be frustrating. Blue lasers are what make Blu-ray players work,...
The product's sales spiel is pretty no-nonsense: "For the first time in history, direct blue laser diodes have now become available in the consumer market. The laser powered home theater projector is the first of a large family of audio and video media technology to feature direct blue diodes. Wicked Lasers took the direct blue laser diode components and made the world's first 445nm direct blue diode laser, the Arctic." Fascinating. And for those scientists among you it'll be doubly interesting, as the race to make cheap portable direct blue lasers has been long and hugely complicated--the physics of them has always seemed to be frustrating. Blue lasers are what make Blu-ray players work,...
- 6/21/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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