Hey all! So let me preface this by saying I effectively know nothing about lasers, and am here for a single purpose: I want to buy a laser glove for a costume. What I'm looking for is specific though, in that it lacks any finger lasers, but just has 2 different colored lasers installed in a rotating palm, and I've seen them referred to by many names, such as "rave laser gloves", "swirl laser gloves", "whirlwind laser gloves", and the less imaginative but accurately named "rotating laser glove". I saw a couple on Ebay that gave me the idea initially, and figured it would be a fairly easy purchase, but I wanted to shop around to get the best bang for my buck. However I quickly realized that the laser industry is seemingly dominated (at least at the novice consumer level) by cheap, sketchy Chinese vendor sites, that either have a mountain of crappy reviews, or lack reviews altogether and are likely "fly-by-night" operations or some other scam. So needless to say, I am thoroughly overwhelmed by what I thought would be just as easy as any other online purchase I've made, and almost decided to try one of these random sketchy shops, in the hopes that I might get something remotely decent for the seemingly ridiculous prices they were asking.
Fortunately, in my quest for reviews for one of these sites, I stumbled across a post from a forum member here titled "GUIDE: Which Company Should I Buy From?", that opened my eyes and gave me hope that I might be able to make a well informed purchase and get a quality product from somewhere after all. That being said, a lot of you seem to be into building your own lasers and doing all kinds of complex and upper level stuff that is well beyond me, and in my searching I found virtually no threads related to these laser gloves that I'm looking for, so I figured I'd just ask directly. I also browsed through the sites of all of the suggested "Good Companies" in the above-mentioned buyer's guide post, but unfortunately only one of the retailers seems to carry laser gloves, and they were only rated as "Fair" in the list: www.o-like.com.
So if anyone would be so kind, I'm primarily interested in 3 things:
The ideal color combo/style I was looking for was a green/violet swirl laser attached to a black leather glove with metal rivets on the back, but unfortunately all of those that I've come across, seem to be offered by bad or unknown companies, most notably laserpointerpro.com. Here's the links I came across in my own searching to the sort of thing I'm looking for:
Are any of these at all reputable or decent quality products? They seem to list REALLY low milliwattage for the laserspen andalexnld options (1 - 5 mw), whereas laserpoints says 100 mw, and laserpointerpro says 400 mw, though apparently they're notorious for lying about the strength of their lasers. Do I want a super weak laser for it to be safe to use around other people? Or will a 1 mw laser be barely visible in anything but pitch black lighting?
Also, here is the list of available laser gloves from O-Like, which I was led to believe is a little more reliable, and also seems to be significantly more reasonably priced:
Alright, well I'll end my long-winded spiel there for now, but thank you in advance to anyone who reads this and tries to help me out.
Fortunately, in my quest for reviews for one of these sites, I stumbled across a post from a forum member here titled "GUIDE: Which Company Should I Buy From?", that opened my eyes and gave me hope that I might be able to make a well informed purchase and get a quality product from somewhere after all. That being said, a lot of you seem to be into building your own lasers and doing all kinds of complex and upper level stuff that is well beyond me, and in my searching I found virtually no threads related to these laser gloves that I'm looking for, so I figured I'd just ask directly. I also browsed through the sites of all of the suggested "Good Companies" in the above-mentioned buyer's guide post, but unfortunately only one of the retailers seems to carry laser gloves, and they were only rated as "Fair" in the list: www.o-like.com.
So if anyone would be so kind, I'm primarily interested in 3 things:
- Educating myself on standard safety protocols, such as how long can I operate the laser glove before I need to allow it cool down, what milliwattage should I be looking for to maximize safety for the use I'm intending it for (i.e. is there any wattage that is low enough so as to be completely harmless to the eye?); etc.
- Getting a product that is at least decent quality, and isn't going to break down immediately or have the battery pack explode on me or something.
- Getting something that is fairly affordable, ideally in the price range of $100 or less.
The ideal color combo/style I was looking for was a green/violet swirl laser attached to a black leather glove with metal rivets on the back, but unfortunately all of those that I've come across, seem to be offered by bad or unknown companies, most notably laserpointerpro.com. Here's the links I came across in my own searching to the sort of thing I'm looking for:
- https://www.laserpointerpro.com/400...eable-laser-glove-black-free-size-p-2573.html
- https://laserspen.com/laser-pointer-lit330.html
- http://www.laserpoints.com/laser-gloves-with-finger-lasers-and-2-rotating-lasers-in-palm-black.html
- https://alexnld.com/product/gloves-double-purple-swirl-laser-gloves-405nm-built-in-battery-1mw-5mw/
Are any of these at all reputable or decent quality products? They seem to list REALLY low milliwattage for the laserspen andalexnld options (1 - 5 mw), whereas laserpoints says 100 mw, and laserpointerpro says 400 mw, though apparently they're notorious for lying about the strength of their lasers. Do I want a super weak laser for it to be safe to use around other people? Or will a 1 mw laser be barely visible in anything but pitch black lighting?
Also, here is the list of available laser gloves from O-Like, which I was led to believe is a little more reliable, and also seems to be significantly more reasonably priced:
- http://www.o-like.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83&products_id=457
- http://www.o-like.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=72&products_id=411
- http://www.o-like.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83&products_id=456
- http://www.o-like.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=414
Alright, well I'll end my long-winded spiel there for now, but thank you in advance to anyone who reads this and tries to help me out.