A young man named Drake Anthony has built a handheld laser powerful enough to melt titanium and crack diamonds.
In a video posted on 31 May, the YouTuber known as styropyro with 3 million followers demonstrated the use of the laser device which he described as “so far off the laser-danger chart, the eye-hazard is incomprehensible.”
Out of this world
Known as Laser 2025, the laser is powered by a 250-watt battery and is 50,000 times the 5-milliwatt maximum capacity that is legal for a handheld laser in the U.S.
In the demo video, styropyro melts aluminum cans, copper, and titanium so effortlessly with the laser gun while lighter materials like paper and plastics burst into flame instantly.
Another remarkable moment was when he used the laser device on a gemstone, made of aluminum-oxide mixed with chromium.
The device effortlessly melts the gemstone and recrystallizes the powder into tiny synthetic rubies, as well as fractured a lab-grown diamond.
According to styropyro, he has built several handheld lasers before, but none comes close to this one as it is far more powerful, and almost illegal to build.
The catch
Styopyro’s invention is indeed impressive, as it is the biggest handheld laser ever filmed according to his assessment, which is likely true since it has 50,000x more power than the highest approved capacity.
However, the device cannot be sold, used, or even carried around in the U.S. because it is illegal to do so with a handheld laser so powerful.
This means that the device will be a monument probably only seen in a museum or never, which leaves one wondering why it was built in the first place since he already knew he couldn’t use it for anything.
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