Bond villains lament as Wicked Lasers withdraw death ray

There can be no justification ...

... for intentionally blinding animals or people with super strength lasers.

Wot, not even "I suffer from Asperger's Syndrome?"

Works on everything else.

what about burning holes in their trousers?

Sonic Repellent

Works on both dogs and horses.

During the heyday of the Tesco/Asda Special Burger & Beef Lasagne affair the amount of horses "national minorities" were breeding in Bulgaria reached the level which can be best described as infestation. I have a summer house there and the things got so bad that we had trouble getting there - you drive half the way down the 1 mile dirt track to it only to find a 10+ horses on the road which are in no mood to budge.

The only thing which proved effective at that point was the sonic gun (aka repellent) - got them off the road every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8

I'll just leave this here...

Near where I live the verges are full of these already. The local tramps must be steeped in cat-repulsion knowledge.

good old cat & rat .22 cal works wonders every time... mines 110 years old & still dose the trick... :)

Re: Looking at those Prices...

My guess is those prices are exactly why the company changed hands. Those things are rather expensive and the folks who had to have one already do by now and the market quickly saturated.

If I could mount these on a cnc table and cut, well anything - cloth, neoprene or even paper then I'd likely find it useful as might many others and the market would be bigger. If I want to make a bright spot on the wall, pop a balloon and light a match I can do it for under $5 with a $3 laser pointer, a pin and, well, a match.

Re: I like toys but...

"a license to throw half a ton of car around the roads"

To balance that, a car is far more useful to most people than a high(ish) powered laser pointer.

Have to agree about the xenon headlights though. Is there a maximum brightness level for vehicle headlights? If so, do these lights exceed it or is the total light output just focussed more tightly? Should the max light level be based on incident light falling on a defined area at a defined distance rather than max wattage or candellas?

Re: I like toys but...

"I'd much rather chance being zapped with a laser once on my way home than face the dozens of morons with their faulty headlights I pass every evening."

I'm with you on the hatred for the ever-increasing brightness of vehicle headlights, but I don't think you comprehend the permanent damage a Spyder III laser can easily do to your retinas.

Re: I like toys but... ton of car?

Thing is, even the idiots understand that half a ton of dangerously driven car is dangerous (even if they might not care). So only dangerous idiots drive dangerously, and not (so much) the well meaning "idiots" (or "people", as they are often known)

But a bright (non-eyesafe) laser is just seen like some sort of "super torch" to a much greater fraction of people than just dangerous idiots. Consequently, even mostly well meaning people might use such a laser in a dangerous manner, simply because they do not understand the danger of lasers - even if they understand the danger of cars, and so try to use cars non-dangerously.

Also, and on a more instinctive level, I (or we) probably tend to imagine that we are mostly going to get better after even a non-trivial car accident (that broken leg will heal....), but blindness is permanent and very likely seems more difficult to live with than (e.g.) a missing foot/leg/arm or whatever. For myself, I just think about how reading will slow to a crawl, and that the benefits of multiple monitors will be utterly unavailable. Are there even screen readers for complicated mathematical equations? What about diagrams and figures?

Re: I like toys but...

'd much rather chance being zapped with a laser once on my way home than face the dozens of morons with their faulty headlights I pass every evening.

I agree that those xenon headlights are annoying and dangerous and should probably be illegal, but I think that the permanent damage to your eyes by just one high-powered laser would be far worse than the annoyance that overly bright headlights can cause.

That said I've not seen any news stories involving one of these lasers being used on drivers. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened, of course, but the pricing on them is high enough that your typical numbskull prankster is going to opt for a lower priced model for their shenanigans. I highly doubt that there's any real need to take them off the market, but I do understand the decision to do so.