So the Wicked Laser was a letdown, but it’s still super dangerous, so that’s kind of cool, right? We wondered what it might be like to get Wicked lasered in the eyeball. So we shot one into a camera. Ouch.
https://gizmodo.com/what-happened-to-wicked-lasers-spyder-iii-pro-arctic-la-5628925
Our poor little pocket HD cam couldn’t vocalize any feelings of intense pain or retinal agony, but it looks like it would be a very uncomfortable sensation—sort of a mix between the finale of 2001: A Space Odyssey and just being poked in the eye. Luckily, a digital image sensor is a lot tougher than the human eye, and survived the laser blast—we doubt you’d be seeing much more than a second or two of blue wonder before you were blind, had these been human peepers and not a cam.
