Great! Now I’ll have to type BATFEL in the near future. That is, if Barry doesn’t Sign an Exec. Order Banning the gun outright. Meanwhile, over in North Korea, Iran, Russia and China…..
Indeed. Every time I see one of these toys, it’s a little smaller and a little more powerful. Energy weapons have some built-in issues but the tech bids fair to outrun the law…except, of course, in New Jersey, where they’re probably already outlawed,
A ml isn’t much 1/100,000 of a light bulb, although since it’s a pulse the power is high for the (real) brief time it actually fires. Also it’s infrared so you don’t actually see anything but a hole in the soft target and you have to use a lens at the target to focus the beam to punch through a hard target and no mention of recharge rate or if there’s an outside power source required or if it uses batteries, so who knows what it’s good for. Can’t even shine it at airplanes to draw the wrath of the Home land security people.
FYI I was punching holes in metal back in the 60’s in college with solid state lasers. nothing new here, except the cool packaging.
March 11th, 2011 at 10:37 am
You’ll put your eye out!
March 11th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Rule Number One for electronic projects: the capacitor is always charged!
March 11th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Great! Now I’ll have to type BATFEL in the near future. That is, if Barry doesn’t Sign an Exec. Order Banning the gun outright. Meanwhile, over in North Korea, Iran, Russia and China…..
March 12th, 2011 at 12:28 am
To think….the Glock ancestor was an iron tube filled with primitive black powder, firing a rock or ball of lead…….
Just think what THIS could evolve into…….
March 12th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Indeed. Every time I see one of these toys, it’s a little smaller and a little more powerful. Energy weapons have some built-in issues but the tech bids fair to outrun the law…except, of course, in New Jersey, where they’re probably already outlawed,
March 13th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
A ml isn’t much 1/100,000 of a light bulb, although since it’s a pulse the power is high for the (real) brief time it actually fires. Also it’s infrared so you don’t actually see anything but a hole in the soft target and you have to use a lens at the target to focus the beam to punch through a hard target and no mention of recharge rate or if there’s an outside power source required or if it uses batteries, so who knows what it’s good for. Can’t even shine it at airplanes to draw the wrath of the Home land security people.
FYI I was punching holes in metal back in the 60’s in college with solid state lasers. nothing new here, except the cool packaging.