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The xTool X1 might initially look like another large, enclosed laser engraver, but it wasn’t long into my months-long test of the X1, to realise it’s something far more ambitious.

Opening a door with a hairpin is a common cliché in books, movies and video games. If you are a fan of Better Call Saul, you might have seen a different way of escaping a more technologically advanced capture. In the episode called “Wiedersehen” (Season Four Episode Nine), Werner Ziegler uses a laser pointer to…

The R1 isn’t Bambu Lab’s first venture into laser engraving; of course, we first saw the small-capacity engraver in the H2D, which enabled, with the cutter and 3D printer, a full range of manufacturing tools in one not-so-small machine. The R1 is something altogether more serious and much closer to machines such as the xTool…

The US Federal Aviation Administration released statistics Thursday about about the number of laser strikes on planes so far in 2026. Reported incidents decreased for the third year in a row, with the latest figure marking a 24 percent drop from the same period in 2025. However, there were still 4,470 cases of planes being…