# LASER Watch: 2000!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-watch-2000/705635>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 26, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-watch-2000/705635 "2014-11-26T00:04:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-watch-2000/705635/1 "2014-11-26T00:04:19Z")

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Thread title borrowed from [LASER BRA 2000](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jZHZGcA_jA&t=2m18s).

[Inventor creates watch that fires laser](http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/tech/innovation/laser-watch-priebe/index.html?hpt=hp_t3)

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> **(CNN) –** It cuts through plastic! It burns holes in walls!
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> It … tells time?
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> Like something out of a James Bond film, it’s a watch – equipped with a laser. Its inventor, Patrick Priebe, built it during downtime from his full-time gig creating props and modestly describes it as a “tiny watch made of garbage.”

I wonder if I can have a LASER installed in my GMT II?

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-watch-2000/705635/2 "2014-11-26T01:49:47Z")

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Much like Spiderman’s webshooters, I’d recommend he wear it below instead of above his wrist.  
It’ll keep him from slicing his hand in two.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laser-watch-2000/705635/3 "2014-11-27T22:56:27Z")

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Popping ballons and lighting matches is pretty easy. I’m a little surprised he can burn a hole in a CD case, but that’s not a really big deal. If you want to cut through hands or, like Sean Connery in _Never Say Never Again_ or Pierce Brosnan in _Goldeneye_, something more substantial, you’ll need a good colling unit, or your watch will get so hot it’ll burn you.