Finally! You can now own your very own lightsabre!

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FaceFaceFace

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I don't wanna be a nerd, but because it is a copyrighted term, "lightsaber" is always spelled in the American style with "e" before "r," even if you're in Britain. Sorry.
 

Danny Ocean

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GiantSpiderGoat said:
Wow if there was ever a weapon that could be used for a real life vigilante, it's this now. Wait what if the army get's a hold of it?
Oh please. The army almost definitely already has.

FaceFaceFace said:
I don't wanna be a nerd, but because it is a copyrighted term, "lightsaber" is always spelled in the American style with "e" before "r," even if you're in Britain. Sorry.
Lightsaber might be, but a lightsabre isn't!
 

TheKwertyeweyoppe

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GiantSpiderGoat said:
Wow if there was ever a weapon that could be used for a real life vigilante, it's this now. Wait what if the army get's a hold of it?
They'll chuck it out since anything it can do submachine-guns can do better, and with less accidentally setting youre friends on fire

Edit: actually they won't chuck it out they'll explore its uses and probabely won't find much
 

HK_01

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That thing should be under the same regulations as firearms. Not sounding good, at all, especially considering that many people I know would play around and eventually hurt people by accident with that thing.
 

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AceAngel said:
It only sears flesh guys, calm down, and it's practically useless at anything else. You can't melt blades, you can't deflect bullets, and the projection part is too small to be of any real use.

It's a gimmick thing at best.

Now if people actually made it more like a 'No More Heroes' sword, that would be more dangerous, and you know why...
Travis' beam katana is probabely the most realistic laser sword ever, so why in a game like No More Heroes?
 

Baneat

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Half a watt's been available for a long time, this isn't particularly groundbreaking or even new.
 

AceAngel

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Matt1234567890 said:
AceAngel said:
It only sears flesh guys, calm down, and it's practically useless at anything else. You can't melt blades, you can't deflect bullets, and the projection part is too small to be of any real use.

It's a gimmick thing at best.

Now if people actually made it more like a 'No More Heroes' sword, that would be more dangerous, and you know why...
Travis' beam katana is probabely the most realistic laser sword ever, so why in a game like No More Heroes?
My thoughts exactly. A Katana Beam Blade (KBB) would do much more realistic as far as things go, simply and indeed because you would be able to have a 'length' to the blade, something which never made sense to me in a light-saber (even when I small kid).
 

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Heh, I'm pretty sure they're overstating the danger of that thing just to get people talking about it. Free publicity, you know.

It does sound pretty cool. Not even remotely lightsabre like though. I won't be getting one simply because I have better things to do with my money, like buy video games.
 

ExileNZ

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NDq8ATBJxM
 

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AceAngel said:
Matt1234567890 said:
AceAngel said:
It only sears flesh guys, calm down, and it's practically useless at anything else. You can't melt blades, you can't deflect bullets, and the projection part is too small to be of any real use.

It's a gimmick thing at best.

Now if people actually made it more like a 'No More Heroes' sword, that would be more dangerous, and you know why...
Travis' beam katana is probabely the most realistic laser sword ever, so why in a game like No More Heroes?
My thoughts exactly. A Katana Beam Blade (KBB) would do much more realistic as far as things go, simply and indeed because you would be able to have a 'length' to the blade, something which never made sense to me in a light-saber (even when I small kid).
Also it could use less energy this way

the laser heads up through the blade and slices gleefully through anything that's there at the time. if nothing is there then the laser hits the 'cap' at the top and using amazingly but not too amazingly advanced technology the light energy that is the blade is converted into electricity by super-advanced solar cells. this means that while some energy is lost while the 'blade' is out otherwise you wouldn't see it, the majority goes back into the batteries. UNLESS the blade actually hits something in which case much more energy is used melting the way through. this means that you only use much energy when you actually attack, which i think is what happens in the game (haven't actually played it).

Yeah i spent a lot of time thinking about this once
 

AceAngel

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Matt1234567890 said:
AceAngel said:
Matt1234567890 said:
AceAngel said:
It only sears flesh guys, calm down, and it's practically useless at anything else. You can't melt blades, you can't deflect bullets, and the projection part is too small to be of any real use.

It's a gimmick thing at best.

Now if people actually made it more like a 'No More Heroes' sword, that would be more dangerous, and you know why...
Travis' beam katana is probabely the most realistic laser sword ever, so why in a game like No More Heroes?
My thoughts exactly. A Katana Beam Blade (KBB) would do much more realistic as far as things go, simply and indeed because you would be able to have a 'length' to the blade, something which never made sense to me in a light-saber (even when I small kid).
Also it could use less energy this way

the laser heads up through the blade and slices gleefully through anything that's there at the time. if nothing is there then the laser hits the 'cap' at the top and using amazingly but not too amazingly advanced technology the light energy that is the blade is converted into electricity by super-advanced solar cells. this means that while some energy is lost while the 'blade' is out otherwise you wouldn't see it, the majority goes back into the batteries. UNLESS the blade actually hits something in which case much more energy is used melting the way through. this means that you only use much energy when you actually attack, which i think is what happens in the game (haven't actually played it).

Yeah i spent a lot of time thinking about this once
OK, by any chance, are you a clone of me? Or another-dimension of me? Or maybe even a future time traveler of me?

Because if you're non-of-the-above, then I must give you a Dinosaur-Proportion five my good Sir.
 

AvsJoe

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CD-R said:
AvsJoe said:
You know, this seems awesome and all, but you'll regret this invention if you ever find yourself being chased by a mugger or rapist armed with one. And you know it's only a matter of time before an unsupervised child gets mutilated or killed with one.

Yep, I'm a bit of a downer kinda guy. Can you tell?
I'd like to thank my fans, who've graciously supported me throughout the years; the OP, dragonslayer32, for giving me the crisi-tunity; and CD-R, the fellow who gave me the award.

But most of all, I thank this [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view] Escapist for giving me the inspiration to be the biggest buzzkill in the land.
 

Riobux

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It's only a matter of time until mass blinding occurs across England.

Thanks guys, that was real intelligent of you! No, not the laser company, The Metro for printing the story in a FREE newspaper. Now wide-spread knowledge of this will be appearing and shit will hit the fan.
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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ExileNZ said:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NDq8ATBJxM
I clicked on this link wondering what the heck a guitar amp had to do with a laser. It was made worse by the fact that, yes, the Line 6 Spyder III is a crappy sounding, overpriced for what it does guitar amp -- so it would be understandable, if a bit mean, to include the "you must be this smart" line.

On topic:

This is pretty darned cool. I remember seeing instructions for taking the laser from a laser printer and making it into a balloon popping death ray, but this is so much better. It's scary that these things are unregulated but, well, this is apparently the first one this powerful to be made available to the public, so the laws are lagging behind.

P.S.: There may be typos. I'm away from my main computer, using IE instead of Firefox -- so no spell check.