A 9-year-old boy in Greece was left with damaged vision after staring into a laser pointer. His doctors describe the case in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The boy's ...

Cheap Burning Lasers Entertain, But Can Blind Too. ByJim Clash. Follow Author. ... the best place for strong laser pointers outdoors is in the remote countryside at least 10 nautical miles from an ...

Each laser pointer (assuming the ones from laser pens since the pen tip is smaller than the cat toy laser) is 5mm across. So if you had 200,000 of them they would be in a grid about 7’ x7’.

YouTuber and inventor Styropyro has built and tested a 250-watt handheld laser device. The system is roughly 50,000 times more powerful than standard commercial laser pointers, Styropyro claims in ...

A 15-year-old Swiss boy attempted to create his own laser show using a laser pointer he bought on the Internet and a mirror. Instead, he inadvertently beamed the laser into his eyes, creating ...

Laser pointers are handheld and battery-powered gadgets which emit a beam of coloured light - usually red, green or blue. They have been used for decades by teachers and lecturers for highlighting ...

Pilots logged 9,457 laser strikes last year and a record 9,723 laser events in 2021. This year, 2,537 incidents have been reported as of March 31. No plane crashes have been reported from laser ...

Lasers pointers, a tragedy waiting in wings Pilots resort to risky "going dark" tactics as laser incidents spike 16%, prompting calls for stricter measures and public awareness. Red laser burning ...

Air Force investigators are raising the alarm over a significant increase in laser pointers being aimed at aircraft, with more than 9,000 incidents reported last year alone.

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Japanese police are investigating reports from the 18th Wing that laser pointers were aimed at two of its aircraft in the air on Tuesday.