Burning Ambition

Via Master Dan Webb, Son of Dr. Joe, a video showing how to install the laser from a DVD burner into a flashlight to create an ersatz phaser, capable of visiting death and destruction on unsuspecting matches and balloons. (It does seem like something Dr. Clayton Forrester would come up with.)

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But don't tell the electronics industry. If Sony, Toshiba, or Philips made matches or balloons, this laser would only work with compatible matches and balloons.

Hmm...maybe that's a good way to get people to quit smoking: have Sony (for example) buy Philip Morris. Then certain lighters and matches would only work with certain cigarettes. People would quite out of frustration! It just...might...work... Let's get the Surgeon General on the phone...