The United States recently made a bold move to shore up support amongst 10-year-old boys the world over by firing the most powerful laser in history.

So, you've got an x-ray laser that, when pointed at matter, can heat it up to 2 million degrees in a trillionth of second.

The best part of technology that has never existed is that there is no logic that determines what it must look like.

For a good while now, the survival horror video game title Dead Space 2 has been available for purchase on store shelves.

Let me start by saying that I have an immense amount of respect for the United States Navy.

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Patrick Priebe built a pulse laser gun which can send a 1 kW pulse of coherent infrared light through a razorblade, sheets of plastic, and half a centimeter of styrofoam at a range of up to three meters for dark surfaces.

Ahhh yeah ya'll, I hope everybody brought along an extra change of clothes today -things are about to get sweaty and sexy- because we're gonna' be discussing lasers, folks, specifically how one might turn a laser into a tractor beam.

The unfortunately-named "PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew" debuted at Global Game Jam 2011 at the Art Institute of Portland.