Maxblaster Flashlight

By Alex in Gadgets, Hacks & Mods, Pictures on Feb 4, 2008 at 6:59 am

Dutch optics engineer Ralf Ottow created a 38-million-candlepower homemade flashlight he called the Maxblaster. It can shoot a lightbeam 4 miles long!

Powered by a pack of 54 batteries, the Maxablaster can put a bright spot of light on a cloud four miles high and illuminate a house from just as far. But Ottow doesn’t use it to spook his neighbors. “It’s not a torch you’d walk your dog with,” he says. “It would probably cook your dog.”

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  1. Hillary Short
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    This kind of flashlight must consume vast amounts of energy.
    I wonder how long you can use this unusually bright device.

  2. groksocket
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Two words.

    Bat. Signal.

  3. Vako
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    How long before jerks start shining these things into the cockpits of aircraft?

  4. track it
    Nov 22nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    it looks so unusual let’s prohibit it.


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