Laser-Guided Electric Scissors

No, not the newest cruise missile but a real working pair of AA-battery-operated scissors with a built-in laser to guide your cutting path (above).

The manual version of these scissors (below),

featured here back on March 10, 2006, generated all sorts of comments, mostly negative and to the effect that this was the stupidest invention since the brief safe*, because the laser beam would move every time you moved the scissors so you'd end up with a totally crooked cut.

No matter.

From the laser-guided scissors website:

Laser-Guided Electric Scissors

Cut straight and accurately in no time with just the press of a button — laser-guided scissors are easy to use.

Light-touch operation makes them ideal for people who suffer from arthritis.

Use for crafts, wrapping gifts, fabric and more.

Requires 2 AA batteries (not included).

8-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 1-1/4".

Plastic and metal.

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$19.98.

*Yes, I am aware that the brief safe may have been invented after rather than before the original hand-powered laser scissors — gimme a break already.