Northrop Grumman reported that it got a solid-state laser to fire a beam with a potency of 105.5 kilowatts.
Laser sundial
This is a simple project of a sundial wherein the pinion is replaced by a line LASER I took from a LASER level. The LASER is mounted on a RC servo which in turn is driven by a micro controller. The micro controller keeps the time and turns the RC servo accordingly.
Laser-engrave euros, if …
Some people are seriously considering what if the eurozone broke up. If some countries are departing eurozone abruptly, they don’t have time to produce new currency. It would need to find temporary ways to separate its share of the euros from the rest. One people suggested laser engraving.
… it to laser-engrave distinguishing marks onto the portion of the euros, which would have been allocated to the country departing the eurozone. This can be done relatively quickly and would make the currencies irreversibly different, said Mathes, adding “but I suspect that the European Central Bank will not look kindly on a state burning holes in its currency.
That would be good for laser companies in the crisis. 
via Centre for European Reform: What if the eurozone broke up?.
First laser etched Kindle 2
Adafruit laser etched first Kindle 2.
I want to have laser etching mechine!
Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers
A quarter-century ago, American rocket scientists proposed the “Star Wars” defense system to knock Soviet missiles from the skies with laser beams. Some of the same scientists are now aiming their lasers at another airborne threat: the mosquito.
In a lab in this Seattle suburb, researchers in long white coats recently stood watching a small glass box of bugs. Every few seconds, a contraption 100 feet away shot a beam that hit the buzzing mosquitoes, one by one, with a spot of red light.
via Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Lasers – WSJ.com.
Simulated Suicide for Laser-Training Troops
When U.S. troops train, they often use a kind of Laser Tag system, to record simulated kills from rifles and artillery. But these days, American forces face less conventional threats, like suicide bombers. Which is why the Navy has funded a patent, for a simulated suicide bomber vest.
use lasers to count traffic
The Iowa Department of Transportation is using a mix of new and old technology to count traffic in a busy area along Interstate 80-35 in Des Moines. D.O.T. spokesperson Karen Carroll says the high-tech laser system counts the vehicles.
Carroll says the system puts two lasers across the road and counts traffic as the vehicles cross the lasers. She says they decided on this system because it would be costly to have to shut down and tear up the road to install the traditional loops under the roadway that measure traffic. Caroll says its’ called the “AxleLight” laser system and is able to tell the type of vehicle by the number of wheels and the distance between each wheel.
Arrests as laser targets aircraft
Two men have been arrested after a laser light was shone at an aircraft coming into land at Cardiff Airport.
The crew of a flight from Dublin reported the incident, suggesting the green light had come from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan on Sunday night.
Rescue chopper attacked with laser
AN ambulance rescue helicopter has been attacked by laser pointers while transporting a badly injured man to hospital in Sydney’s southwest.
The crew had to alter their route to approach Liverpool Hospital safely, after a laser beam was pointed at the helicopter last night, a NSW Ambulance spokesman said.
via The Australian.
laser lighter
rog8811 has gutted a zippo style lighter and inserted a blue ray laser module. It can not really light a cigerate. But it is cool.
