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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 

Wicked Laser!

[Listening to: Life Is a Highway - Rascal Flatts - Cars (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (4:36)]

Wicked Laser!I got my new Phoenix 75mW Wicked Laser yesterday and it truly is wicked. Its amazing how well you can see it in full day light. I shot it across the parking lot at work and could see the bright green dot on my car from a couple hundred feet away. Even more amazing is seeing it at night. The site says it can be used for astronomy, you can point it at a star in the sky and you can see the beam so far it truly looks like your pointing it at the star. My camera would not do very well at night but I did take a few pics.I ordered it last week and it only took 4 days, not bad for being shipped from China. I thought it was cool on the Express Mailer they had written that the contents were a "Ballpoint Pen" and the estimated value was "$7". Why do I need a 75mW laser with a range of 30 miles you ask? Well first of all if you have to ask you wouldn't understand, but the most useful thing I got it for is to align wireless antennas at work :) I'm working on a tripod to attach it to that can be fine tuned for alignment. Check out some of the other useful things you can do with it in the video section of their site. It would be cool to have one of those 300mW 125 mile range Spyders, but its a little pricey, not bad though when you think of what lasers used to cost.