Laser pointer ad

[smokeAndMirrors]

Jeez this ad - from Google - made me mad:

"Unlike normal 1mW lasers [sic] pointers, we have the latest high power 532nm 200mW green laser to impress even the serious professional [sic]. These are not toys! [sic^2] The light can burst balloons, melt plastic, light matches and has a range of over 80 miles"

...

'The nice thing about getting a powerful laser of this caliber is just
that; it’s powerful. This laser has enough oomph to put a green dot on
something from pretty much as far away as you can see, and that’s
during the day. At night it makes a seemingly unending sabre-like beam
of green laser light visible for miles'

Wow, that's useful. </sarcasm>

Worst of all, the Google ad suggests some disingenuousness: "www.LaserLabs.co.uk - high power buy b4 they're illegal!"

[ChrisPriest]

Irresponsible idiots....

They even have a video on their website of them targeting a toy radio-controlled helicopter with the pointers and then 'faking' a crash.

Makes me ashamed to live in the same country.....

[gottaluvlasers]

i could be wrong here...

but some of you guys i think from SELEM need to look at the video on that website!!!

i believe that this guy took a video of you guys with all of your pointers at SELEM.

the video clip looked pretty familiar.

-Marc

[buffo]

The toy helicopter crash sequence was indeed from the 2009 pre-SELEM dinner party at The Artist's Cafe. 300Evil posted a link to that video a couple months ago. Evidently the people who made this pointer demo video found the SELEM dinner party video and ripped out the segment with the pointers and LaserJock's RC helicopter.

I'm rather pissed that it was used in this maner, but I don't see where we have any legal right to tell them to remove it. (It was posted publically, after all.) More to the point, however, I'm pissed that they would show video of someone shining a pointer at a *real* helicopter and use this as a marketing device. It boggles the mind...

Adam

[mixedgas]

Hey, UKians, how about letting National Radiation Protection Board and JCOH know about that site....


Steve

[Doc]

There is no power limit for pointers in the UK at the moment.

[buffo]

True, but it is still illegal to illuminate an aircraft, right?

Makes me feel sick that the dinner party video is being used in this manner. We look like a bunch of chumps, even though it was a private party, upstairs, with only laserists attending. (Edit: and it was a *joke* at that...)

Shit...

Adam

[dream beamz]

holy shit, thats the most blaintent crap ever. not only are videos stolen from all over but they are advertising it like its cool to shine at flying aircraft and up in the sky for various reasons.

I think everyone with some worldwide pull needs to get involved in getting this idiot taken down.

[ChrisPriest]

Sorry guys, no offence intended to you when I said about the toy helicopter incident. I had thought it was the idiots at this UK Laser Labs co.

Still, it's pretty crap advertising on their part, that's almost like saying, yes, go ahead, it's OK to target aircraft, especially with the video of a real helicopter targetting incident as buffo mentioned.

No offence intended to any SELEM guys

[buffo]

None taken, Chris.

I just don't like the fact that they've taken something out of context, and used it in the most perverse manner I can imagine. I still think you were right to draw our attention to it.

Adam