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October 11, 2019 05:35 pm
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Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous
harrymcc writes: Go to Amazon, Walmart.com, and eBay, and you can find an array of companies selling laser cutters and engravers for a few hundred dollars -- dramatically less than you'll pay for a brand name such as Glowforge. But these budget models lack the safety features required to keep lasers safe, and may even have ignored the required FDA paperwork to put them on the market. Over at Fast Company, Glenn Fleishman wrote about the dangers of these devices. When alerted of specific models, the ecommerce sites removed them -- but many others remain for sale.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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