I’m having a little trouble balancing the “Green laser pointers over 5 milliwatts are too dangerous to sell to the general public” meme and “The green laser used in the Dazer Laser has been proven eye safe” ad copy.
Regardless of what the company is calling it, this isn’t a laser, it is a focused hight intensity beam. A laser doesn’t spread like the light in the video, either that or they have a huge 1 foot beam width laser. Notice how the beam fades at the perimeter of the circle of light, lasers are uniform. Plus they advertise it can be used as a normal flashlight in “search” mode. They actually advertise that at longer ranges the beam is wider, lasers don’t spread which is why you can put a pinpoint of light on a target with your laser sight.
Basically it is a strobed flashlight.
I watched more of the video, the beam has a white center where the intensity overwhelms the filter. So they aren’t even using green (nightvision) LEDs. This is a lensed, fast strobe with a green filter and nothing new.
I’m rather skeptical of the claims that it has no long lasting effects. C’mon now, if it’s powerful enough to incapacitate someone, it’s powerful enough to permanantly BLIND someone. Plus I can see LEOs abusing this like they do with tasers.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Good thing you couldn’t fight through it by, say, looking down while charging your opponent.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:49 am
I’m having a little trouble balancing the “Green laser pointers over 5 milliwatts are too dangerous to sell to the general public” meme and “The green laser used in the Dazer Laser has been proven eye safe” ad copy.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:03 am
You could always, idk, build one yourself 🙂
http://ladyada.net/make/bedazzler/
July 29th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Regardless of what the company is calling it, this isn’t a laser, it is a focused hight intensity beam. A laser doesn’t spread like the light in the video, either that or they have a huge 1 foot beam width laser. Notice how the beam fades at the perimeter of the circle of light, lasers are uniform. Plus they advertise it can be used as a normal flashlight in “search” mode. They actually advertise that at longer ranges the beam is wider, lasers don’t spread which is why you can put a pinpoint of light on a target with your laser sight.
Basically it is a strobed flashlight.
I watched more of the video, the beam has a white center where the intensity overwhelms the filter. So they aren’t even using green (nightvision) LEDs. This is a lensed, fast strobe with a green filter and nothing new.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:53 am
I’m rather skeptical of the claims that it has no long lasting effects. C’mon now, if it’s powerful enough to incapacitate someone, it’s powerful enough to permanantly BLIND someone. Plus I can see LEOs abusing this like they do with tasers.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
I’ll trust my life with my 230 gr “Dazer” If the suspect hold up their arm to shield their eyes the arm is broken and then they are “Dazed”
I gotta say doing research on Tasers, Stun Guns, and Chemical sprays it seems like the sellers are pitching so much snake oil.