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USB Laser-Guided Missile Launcher

Yes, finally! Last year, we saw the USB-powered Air Darts that probably started countless office wars. And now, the next generation is finally out. The Striker II USB Laser-Guided Missile Launcher still loads only three missiles. But, it comes with “class 3 laser guidance system” now, which I suppose would help you score more headshots [...]

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Three Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) on a CD-R?!

Yes, three-holy-terabytes (3,000-gigabytes) of data on an optical disc the size of our regular CD-R might just be possible soon! Harvard researchers have developed an “optical nano antenna” which helps focus light from an inexpensive laser onto a spot size of 40-nanometers. To put things into perspective: CDs use lasers with a wavelength of 780-nanometers, DVDs [...]

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Laser-Etching an Apple PowerBook

This is the kind of cool things that an Epilog Laser Engraver can do. Celtic knot was designed in Adobe Photoshop, and later transferred to the laser system by hooking up it up to a Windows box running Corel Draw. Of course, dry runs were conducted on a piece of paper to make sure the [...]

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Read Both Blu-Ray & HD-DVD With Ricoh’s New Laser

The divergence from DVD to Blu-ray and HD-DVD can be a little damaging to our pockets. That would mean getting individual drives just to playback each format. But it looks like there might be hope, as Ricoh has announced a new laser that could read both Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats. The data layer of a Blu-ray [...]

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Wicked Lasers reviewed, and with video

I am sure all of you have seen the typical $5 red laser pointers that your boss uses for his presentations. However, what we have here today is a green laser, and not just any green laser. It is a Wicked Laser! Yup, the same ones we featured last month. Green lasers have only been available [...]

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Fancy some Wickedly Powerful Laser Pointers?

Sure looks like Yoda’s lightsaber eh? Although this one certainly doesn’t cut limbs. That’s not saying that these laser pointers by Wicked Lasers are weak. In fact, these Class IIIB portable laser pointers are one of the strongest and brightest out there. These laser pointers certainly aren’t toys and should be handled with care. Available [...]

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