Here's a clue ---
"Hello, I'm from your government and I'm here to help" !!!!!! Right......
Uh ..... i thoughd it was "Hello, I'm from your
tax office and I'm here to help" ..... j/k
This is amusing that the discussion on safety finally popped up with these class IV blue lasers, when the IR 1w + lasers have been out for years on the cheap. Hopefully this is the wake up call that we all need to give these devices the respect they deserve. The blue ones, especially at this wavelength will not show you mercy if you are foolish, prolonged viewing of the scattered light will ruin your color vision, even a flash off of glass can give you a small retinal burn, the direct beam will instantly blind you.
Right, but you have to admit that is not usual see or have a high power IR laser pointer ..... where instead visible ones are much more attractive for the peoples ..... so, also if IR ones are more dangerous than visible ones, almost none cared, til now (except mayme us, poor laser hobbysts
)
Perhaps, but it's not like <100mW lasers can't blind you either
These high powered ones just do it a fair bit quicker and easier.
Also this is right, but you have to keep in consideration "public knowledge" ..... how much peoples from the ones that you know outside our hobby, really knows what a laser is, or how manage it ?
Peoples just don't know, and normally don't care (and governs always take profit about this ..... you know, here in Italy ALL lasers over class 2B are banned, and police periodically confiscate
"extremely dangerous" <1mW keychain lasers from street market, also if, mainly, cause they have just not paid the "legalized pizzo" ..... pardon, i meant "the tax" for get the "CE" tag on them
)
