“Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy”
I must confess to always having been more of a Trekkie than and Star wars enthusiast, although I have enjoyed both.
This blog post is actually based on Star Trek, not Star Wars, so apologies to the purists who were captured by the headline. I know it’s a bit of a cliché and a lot of other people may be doing it too, but it is May 4th and I just couldn’t resist. I try to get it worked in somewhere every year!
And strangely enough this blog post is not about someone stupid either. A little eccentric perhaps, but I love people who are just that little bit off center. You could also call him a nerd or a geek. But whatever you call him, the guy is clever. He has just made himself something that has left me very envious, and that doesn’t happen too often.
You see, this guy has created a real-life, functional version of a Star Trek phaser.
Oh yes he has!
He has taken what looks like a ‘toy’ phaser casing and inside that fitted a laser unit, possibly one of those high powered laser pointers or maybe the laser from inside a Blu ray machine or something similar. However exactly he did it is less important at the moment than to view the result.
I won’t waffle on. Suffice to say is that I WANT ONE!
And there’s a good chance you might too once you see the video.
As ever, enjoy!
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Want? No, I NEED this! 😀
Absolutely!
Very cool – pity that film looks JUST a bit suspiciously “enhanced”. Though I can picture some neat fun to be had, with the model kit to make the phaser, then a laser pointer shining through a stream of water from, say, a belt pack. Definite possibilities….. 😉
Enhanced maybe, but I’d still like one. Glad you enjoyed it.
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