A few decades after its conception, the Star Wars lightsaber is here, and like everything worth buying, it’s on sale on the internet.

But this is apparently not a very good thing, seeing as the lightsaber is both cheap and 1000 times more potent than those commercial laser pointers that drive your pets insane, and can, among other things, blind instantly, set fire to skin, cause cancer and create general mayhem.

This, from Sky News:

Star Wars fans are among hundreds of people who have already shown an interest in buying the laser, for sale to the general public for £135.

Laser safety expert John Colton, director of Lucid Optical Services, told Sky News Online that the lasers were “horrendously dangerous”.

“Under no circumstances should they be on sale on the internet,” he said.

They could be “deadly” if aimed at car drivers or even pilots in planes, Mr Colton added.

Hmmm. Without a committee of Jedi to control the distribution of these things, we might see 11 year-olds turn to the dark side in their thousands.

There’s only one thing to do. CROWD CONTROL.

[Source : Sky News]