Here is a great video I found on YouTube of a Wicked Lasers Sonar used in a tunnel scanner. The violet laser creates a beautiful tunnel effect. Things really get neat around 0:40. Check it out:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2nBq0Cq9o

Wow, the guys at Wicked Lasers really know how to make a cool gadget. They have managed to squeeze 60mW out of a blu-ray laser diode and fit it all in a nice little package. I would love to have one of these things! Lighting a match with a green laser is cool, but other people can do it. If you had one of these, you would make all other blu-ray pointers look like toys. Especially the home made ones.

To the best of my knowledge, Wicked Lasers is the only company that offers professionally built blu-ray pointers like this. I’ve heard some horror stories of people trying to do this themselves as well as crap that people have gotten off eBay. I have never heard of anyone managing to get 60mW though!

More photos and specs after the jump.

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