If you polled every 8 year old Star Wars fan about what they wanted for Christmas, a light saber would easily top the list. Not some cheap plastic light saber that lights up. No… a real one that can cut through anything! They wouldn’t cut off most of their fingers and a leg within the first five minutes, they swear!
I honestly never thought that anything even close to a real light saber would ever be invented in my lifetime, but I was shocked to learn the specs of a hand-held blue laser called the S3 Arctic Spyder III (by a company called Wicked Lasers). This thing is nuts. Stupid nuts! This Class 4 laser boasts 1W of output power, which will instantly blind anyone who’s eyes happen to be in the way.
With that in mind, here is the Wicked Lasers S3 Arctic Spyder III:
This is one weapon hand-held laser pointer Portable Laser that isn’t fucking around. “You could put an eye out with that” isn’t even coming close to describing the ease with which any wielder can blind anyone around them. It wouldn’t even take a stupid person to shatter someone’s life with this beast; all it would take is one second of “oops, did I aim that into the crowd over there?” and anyone wielding the S3 Arctic Spyder III is now a terrorist.
But I still can’t get past the fact that any geek like myself can easily see how insanely cool this thing would be to play with outdoors (miles away from people and shiny things) every now and then. I do think the fun would be slightly lessened due to the fact that I would be paranoid about not aiming it at anything that could even think about reflecting or refracting light the whole time. I’m not looking forward to seeing one of these in the hands of a drunk Star Wars fan lighting up the folks around him, however…