Rofl, "Now the flint can be used for a pretty handy emergency fire starter..."

Umm, if you'd left your lighter in one piece wouldn't it make a BETTER fire starter? I mean sure you couldn't accidentally blind yourself or your friends with it but it costs about $50 less...

This should not be in the geek, engineering, or howto channels.

The idea that you could put a laser in any arbitrary container, including a lighter housing, is obvious. So too is the idea that you could use a laser to light cigarettes. The wiring "diagram" presented at 1:20 is not a diagram but a photograph, and it does not show how to wire the parts at all. An explanation of a critical part of the engineering--securely mounting the laser diode so it points out of the hole--is omitted. It appears they omitted the actual engineering too as at 2:02 and 2:04 you can see the end of the lighter glows blue from the beam hitting the inside of the housing. But worst of all, at 2:15, while admonishing the viewer to not point the laser at people, they are clearly shining it directly into the face if not the left eye of the guy with the cigarette. If the laser was actually intense enough to light a cigarette, that individual would now be permanently blind in his left eye.

This is either parody, a viral for the website advertised at 1:08, or it should be in the EIA channel.

boooooo

CAT INSTANT UPVOTE

Oh hey look, its KipKay... that explains it all.

This guy seems to make a living off of useless how-tos that hardly tell you how-to regardless.

Whats even worse is he did this "cheap" laser pointer trick before and was called out on it over how incredibly dangerous this is for others... yet now he does it again? Nearly 2 million views on YouTube like all of his other shit? Fuck me...

Oh yeah, not only will this laser blind you, but has the potential to blind others not even looking into the beam. Stray reflections from a 50mw or greater laser (what you would need to accomplish fire) are enough to also cause either temporary or permanent eye damage. That is, indirectly looking at the laser. Like his last laser video, no warning about danger as usual.

How people think this guy is a clever engineer makes me sick.