Remember the scenes in The Terminator where bad-guy Arnold draws a laser-sighted bead on his target? Nowadays, laser sights on guns are nothing new, but in 1984, they weren't exactly a dime a dozen. The 10,000 watt power-up requirement probably had something to do with that...

While the movie introduced quite a few high tech concepts to movie audiences, that laser-sighted pistol made the movie poster and played a big part in the Terminator's grand assassination plan.

Ars Technica has a story about how that gun was created as a movie prop:

At a party during CES, Deputy Editor Jon Stokes and I bumped into some representatives from SureFire, a company that specializes in tactical flashlights. We talked about some of our favorite moments with technology in cinema, and The Terminator came up.

"We created that laser!" I was told. They told me the gentleman who built the prop was named Ed Reynolds, and he was still with the company. More than a little jazzed about bumping into a fun part of film history, we knew we had to get the full story behind the Terminator's gun.

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