The videos from [styropyro] are always amusing and informative. However, ironically for him, he is alarmed that many green laser pointers are more powerful than they are supposed to be. Sure, you ...

Once upon a time, an aircraft pilot looking down toward the ground saw only the distant twinkling lights of homes and cities. But pilots have had an unfortunate high-tech worry for many years: ...

I’m sure all of you reading this have seen or used a laser pointer at some point in your life, or maybe you’ve even bought one online. But have you ever paid attention to the warning signs on your ...

Yet another person in the New York area has been entertaining him- or herself by pointing a green laser at planes. The latest incident occurred Thursday night over Long Island, when four commercial ...

Discover how to build your own DIY laser pointer that connects to your smartphone's headphone jack and is controlled via an ...

A 9-year-old boy in Greece was left with damaged vision after staring into a laser pointer. His doctors describe the case in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The boy's parents ...

Every now and then, one of my columns elicits enough reader response to merit a follow-up. Such is the case with a piece I wrote on green laser pointers (November 2013), in which I outlined their ...

Who would have thought you could make a game out of an optical bench? [Chris Mitchell] did, and while we were skeptical at first, his laser Light Bender game has some potential. Just watch your eyes.

The batteries leaked in my laser pointer. They had swollen to the point where I could not get them out. I clamped the laser pointer in my trusty Wilton vise and drilled out the batteries with a large ...