YouTuber builds world's strongest handheld laser, melts titanium and fractures diamonds

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust WTF?! We're now living in times when a YouTuber is able to build what is apparently the world's strongest handheld laser. The device is powerful enough to melt titanium, fracture diamond, weld razor blades, and even make synthetic rubies. Drake Anthony – better known to his 3 million YouTube followers as styropyro – is a chemist and YouTuber with a fondness for building huge lasers and playing with electricity and chemicals. His latest project was a build "so far off the laser-danger chart the eye-hazard is incomprehensible." Styropyro is referring to the Laser 2025, a 250-watt, battery-powered blue-diode array he claims is the strongest handheld laser ever filmed. The device occupies a power class normally reserved for industrial metal cutters and research labs, and is 50,000 times the 5-milliwatt ceiling that the US Food and Drug Administration sets for consumer laser pointers. Styrop ... Read full article.