Comments on: Remember: Always wear your safety glasses!

Remember: Always wear your safety glasses!

quin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:24:15 -0800

Laser Pointer Hack! A DIY guide to turning your laser pointer into a laser cannon.

By: madajb

madajb — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:33:23 -0800

You can have my laser cannon when you pry it from my ~~cold dead~~ still warm, slightly smoking, fingers.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:00:15 -0800

I had never heard of this guy, or the Annoying Orange, before this. The Annoying Orange Youtube Channel's videos have accumulated 1,024,053,929 views. Daneboe's YT Channel's vids have 597,471,867. Therefore, I demand that you hack your alarm clock to turn back time and undo all of this the damage. Nobody will thank you, but you will know you've done the right thing.

By: narcoleptic

narcoleptic — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:01:58 -0800

I took it as a spoof of the lifehacker type stuff. Although it was better done here.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:15:17 -0800

GET.THE.BIGGEST.LASER.

By: CrazyJoel

CrazyJoel — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:20:32 -0800

Liar.

By: Old'n'Busted

Old'n'Busted — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:25:26 -0800

Riiight. Stopped watching when he said "there is a small switch", which is too bad, because I was expecting a Dans Data "here's how you overdrive your LED/laser" video. I think this is same guy who had the "millions of AA batteries from a car battery" gag.

By: Saddo

Saddo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:26:43 -0800

What happens if your batteries run out?

By: Tube

Tube — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:30:21 -0800

Here is a genuine hack which modifies a momentary switch on a laser pointer to a conventional on/off switch.

By: phearlez

phearlez — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:54:46 -0800

I did like the splatter effect.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:30:47 -0800

Color me disappointed. Which is easy to do with the Adobe Disappointed Filter effect.

By: Chocolate Pickle

Chocolate Pickle — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:59:14 -0800

For an amateur-produced video, that was pretty darned neat.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:04:20 -0800

To clarify - I'm only disappointed because my dream for a cheap and easy hand-held laser cannon is thwarted once again.

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:29:58 -0800

I'd settle for a game of Laser Tag with Nick Cannon.

By: scrowdid

scrowdid — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:56:42 -0800

The democratization of video has come to mean that everything now has the mentality of your local network affiliate's 1981 afterschool variety show.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:20:51 -0800

The democratization of video has come to mean that everything now has the mentality of your local network affiliate's 1981 afterschool variety show. Starring Bill Nye the Science Guy and Joel McHale.

By: sneebler

sneebler — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:47:11 -0800

What scrowdid said. If you have kids who are allowed to use the Internet, you're already running screaming in the opposite direction. He didn't call it "annoying" for nothing.

By: biscotti

biscotti — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:13:52 -0800

Do not look into laser cannon with remaining eye.

By: brando_calrissian

brando_calrissian — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:14:27 -0800

i have taken apart three different laser pointers and STILL cannot find that damned DIP switch...

By: jeffburdges

jeffburdges — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:41:42 -0800

Dent Repair

By: DU

DU — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:56:42 -0800

The democratization of video has come to mean that everything now has the mentality of your local network affiliate's 1981 afterschool variety show. I agree, things are looking up for video compared to what you might gather from watching network TV.