Man builds working 'Star Trek' style phaser

[Romulus111VADT]

http://now.msn.com/now/0426-real-life-phaser.aspx

I'm pretty sure this is fake; but I'll be darned if I can see how it was done.
:-/

If it's not fake; move over Bill Gates, there's a new billionaire in town.

[RaptorF22]

It's real, it is made with a blue-ray reader laser diode.

Here's how it's done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfj1n8vPWCE

[machineman9]

Yeah it looks like a laser diode in a smokey room. Set blu-ray to 'stun'