{"id":804,"date":"2008-08-12T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2008-08-21T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T17:38:38","slug":"a181-handheld-laser-projector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"#a181 :: Handheld laser projector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/081408.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/081408-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"enlarge\" title=\"enlarge\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-805\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/081408-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/081408-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/081408.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A clear memory: I was 9. We were in the Smithsonian. The room was dark. Someone was demonstrating laser beams.<\/p>\n<p>The name, <a href=\"http:\/\/buy-viagra-100mg.net\" title=\"viagra\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">page<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-sale-online.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">doctor<\/a>  so ineffably cool. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=laser+stands+for&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">L-A-S-E-R<\/a>. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Sharp, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-order-online.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">medical<\/a>  bright red patterns on the wall. In the future, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-over-the-counter.net\" title=\"buy viagra\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">approved<\/a>  we&#8217;ll all be using lasers. Living rooms and spaceships will look like this <i>all<\/i> the time. Spirograph spidery special.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward 29 years. <a href=\"http:\/\/burningman.com\">Burning Man<\/a>. A massive green laser blasts patterns out across the playa as people rave to and fro in the night. I can only love the intense patterns it makes in the dust, hope no one is being blinded, and wish for technology to advance to where I can put it in my pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Jump to last week: We&#8217;re in the gift shop of the <a href=\"\">London Science Museum<\/a>. As the kids would say, OMFG. Here it is. Kaching. Pocketed, boxed for home, and unwrapped when the big box arrived a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pocket-Light-Show-Pattern-Projector\/dp\/B000Q6T7W0\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=hi&#038;qid=1219339983&#038;sr=8-1\">get &#8217;em online, too<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been playing with mine pretty much every night since then, before going to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clear memory: I was 9. We were in the Smithsonian. The room was dark. Someone was demonstrating laser beams. The name, page doctor so ineffably cool. L-A-S-E-R. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Sharp, medical bright red patterns on the wall. In the future, approved we&#8217;ll all be using lasers. Living rooms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fetish","category-instrument","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}