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 ...

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 ...

Wikipedia Commons Laser pointers. Last year, pilots over Colorado reported more than 300 “laser strike” incidents — someone on the ground shining a laser pointer at an airplane or helicopter.

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.