Just came across this video on youtube, was pretty interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Sdu...layer_embedded
...provided the actual beam profile is as shown at the end of the movie, the scanner crowd could just end up buying the item for the optics. Could be a pretty good deal, considering a purchase would get a diode and some pretty decent optics?
That being said I would personally wait for reviewers to determine whether optic extraction is even possible and if the final product ends up with beam characteristics equal to the ones portrayed in the video.
After watching the video another question has arisen in my mind...do you guys consider such a beam profile even possible, without an extensive amount of optics, which most likely wouldn't fit in the casing?
Best Regards,
brtaman