I clicked through and read the description on the thermometer. I guess the idea is that you can shoot your child's forehead and determine if he/she has the swine flu. Uh huh.

Does that device measure a fever or give one?

Am I the only one who thinks getting a laser that close to a child's eyes is a bad idea? Especially since we know children sit SO still.

@2DaysTillTheState_GitEmSteveDave: Don't overreact! It has a laser sight!

FEVER GUN ACTIVATE PEW PEW!

Resolution on that infrared gun is 0.1 degrees but accuracy is plus/minus 1.5 degrees C. Don't waste your money. All these cheap guns are only good for very basic applications.

I want that thermometer SO BAD so I could spend all my time keeping everyone updated on their tenths of a degree variations in temperature until everyone was shouting, "STOP MEASURING ME!"

Because that's just the kind of thing I do.

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Don't Measure me, Bro!

@Radi0logy: So the laser sight has a laser sight? Sweet.

Seems like a great deal for that Asus monitor.

@MooseOfReason: I point my fever gun at you pew pew!

Doesn't aiming a red laser at your squirming child's face, particularly seem like a bad idea? Particularly since you know most people will automatically go for the forehead like they traditionally do. Next thing you know junior's got a little short term blindness in addition to the flu.

@menty666: Sorry, too many particularly's up there. I'm still waking up.

@TheStateOnDVD2Day_GitEmSteveDave: I have never seen one of these used to monitor body temperature. It's always been "things you don't want to get close to". Then again, a sick kid may fall under that category.

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Sounds like a great way to get some attention. Zap some girl at a bar, look at the readout, shake your head like it's bad news and announce, "Rockin' Pneumonia." Zap her friend and announce, "Boogie Woogie Flu." I guarantee... celibacy.

@Coles_Law: I called my little cousins "vectors" for a reason when they were in school.

@TheStateOnDVD2Day_GitEmSteveDave: +1!!!

I've been waiting for the toddler's head zapper to go on sale!

@PunditGuy:

Boogie Woogie Influenza almost got away!

Oh, it's a thermometer. I was wondering, why is someone zapping a sailor baby's head???

@HogwartsAlum: That's Sailor Moon's enemy attacking Sailor Io, which is a small moon, so thus, a baby.

@PunditGuy: My roommate in college was a paramedic and used to come right to the bar from working ... stethescopes make you TOTALLY popular in bars!

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): When you get your thyroid ablated, you're radioactive for a while. A colleague of mine, who underwent the procedure, was followed around by a relative with a Geiger counter. My scientist brother was devastated that he hadn't thought to do that with me.

Ooooo.. PEW PEW!!

The Alton side of me wants to buy one of those and point it at all the meat and seafood at the grocerie store..

@TheStateOnDVD2Day_GitEmSteveDave: I've usually seen them at the track, for taking instantaneous tire temperature readings immediately after a practice or qualifying session.

@HogwartsAlum: At first glance I thought it was some kind of drill! Why would I want a baby drill? I mean, I don't have any kids, so maybe I just don't understand...