Working lightsaber ‘the most dangerous laser ever created’

This isn't a lightsaber, it's a powerful portable laser.

That's kind of like claiming you've manufactured the world's first gun when all you have is arrows with bullet-shaped heads.

Strayed from the true path of the Jedi they have. For not the power of the laser important is. No, the sound 'vooom' when you swing it the true lightsaber makes.

Everything in this piece is pure fluff. The allegation that it could cause cancer is quite laughable, it's a blue-laser given that for the effect to actually happen it requires the light to be emitted in a very narrow band of the spectrum it should be impossible for it to be emitting ultra-violet light. They're not posting that it can cause UV-burn of the eyes, just that it's exceptionally bright.

So unless this company discovered a magical type of ionizing radiation in the visible spectrum, there's major misleading information here. Besides, the laser is powerful enough to cause conflagration of the skin, so there likely wouldn't be enough skin cells left to actually be concerned about getting skin cancer from where the beam touched you.

Is this a lightsaber or just a powerful laser? If the latter, I am less than impressed, particularly at the quality of reporting in this article.

El Reg has a better write up including safety fears - http://www.reghardware.com/2010/06/16/arctic_laser/

It's incredibly irresponsible of a company to market/sell these.

Funny...the logo ("Spyder") on the side looks like it was ripped from the company that makes my ski jacket.

This from the company that brought us http://wickedpowered.keenspot.com/. Yes, really - they have some strange ideas about marketing.

That's what we needed - the friggin pownzerd generation running around with these things.