Tip: Don't record laser tattoo removal (2019)

Cool.

I recently saw a car with a light flashing the license plate periodically, I wonder if the driver was going for that effect.

Tattoo removal tends to use ~1MW pulsed lasers (yes, megawatt). The pulse is extremely short (nanoseconds), but at that power/instant-brightness it's enough to fry sensitive imaging electronics.

Can also do fun things like blast holes through CDs.

I'd learned about the topic the other day here ("plays" with a cheap tattoo removal kit off the web): https://youtu.be/-BeTq99LqUo