inspires me to want to write some kind of science fiction to inspire the next generation of crazy scientist/inventors.

I would set my phaser to kill.

Then I would shoot Fake Tupac.

This might be better than my bug zapper lightsaber idea.

Maybe.

Well, if that's what anyone can do with some basic knowledge, some spare computer parts laying around and the time to play, then what might places like DARPA have created with unlimited budgets and the best minds money can buy to tinker with the concept? I'll bet they started working this one before most of us were born...just to see what they could do. Gotta love DIY ingenuity! It does fire the imagination too.

I WANT ONE!!!

Set geek drool on "stun"!

I'd almost missed that Domo already posted the link above, but that is the Spyder III he linked which is supposed to be something like a Light Saber for the power of the laser and the damage it can do on near instant contact. Apparently it's at the level where burning starts right away and blinding would be a one shot, sure thing deal on the first 'oops'. I wish I'd bought one when I had the chance and they look really interesting.

I'd wondered in looking at them the first time...what such a burning laser would do to a thing like, say, red-light camera sensors, if applied from just off it's line of recording view. Of course...hypothetically, and I never did buy it.

I wonder if the Blu-Ray 'phaser' would work too.. lol