Hand-held Lasers - a development

Holy crap - was at the Wicked Lasers website and this popped up:

Makes sense on their part - these can cause immediate and irreparable damage to the eye if the beam even touches for an instant.

Ironic in that I held off getting one for a long time because they weren't powerful enough. Now they are too powerful.

UPDATE: Just checked their competitor - Survival Lasers and they are selling laser kits - bundles of pre-assembled modules which can be snapped together to yield a comlpete laser. They note on their website:

ATTENTION U.S. CUSTOMERS! Please visit our U.S.-specific web store at http://www.survivallaserusa.com. There are products on the international store that cannot be shipped to US addresses due to FDA regulations.

The U.S. Store has everything that the international store does except for the laser diodes themselves - the active part. Curious...