bondr006
Flashlight Enthusiast
I was just reading a newsletter I get from PC Magazine...and what do you know? The original article is here...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2282783,00.asp
This is the part about the Maxablaster....
"The invention of the Maxablaster is as close as humans have come to inventing a lightsaber. We're not kidding. A Dutch optics engineer has invented a 38-million-candlepower flashlight with the power to burn skin. It's not a solid beam (so we can't hail the Star Wars gods as having finally arrived), but it'll definitely do some damage. The commercial flashlight shell was gutted and a mercury arc bulb installed, which produces a brighter, more focused beam. Powered by 54 batteries, the Maxablaster's light beam can light up a cloud four miles high. An abundance of ultraviolet light gave the creator a sunburn in early testing. There are no plans to mass-produce it, which is probably a good thing."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2282783,00.asp
This is the part about the Maxablaster....
"The invention of the Maxablaster is as close as humans have come to inventing a lightsaber. We're not kidding. A Dutch optics engineer has invented a 38-million-candlepower flashlight with the power to burn skin. It's not a solid beam (so we can't hail the Star Wars gods as having finally arrived), but it'll definitely do some damage. The commercial flashlight shell was gutted and a mercury arc bulb installed, which produces a brighter, more focused beam. Powered by 54 batteries, the Maxablaster's light beam can light up a cloud four miles high. An abundance of ultraviolet light gave the creator a sunburn in early testing. There are no plans to mass-produce it, which is probably a good thing."
