The Laser Pod comes in a bright orange set of packaging not unlike and orange mobile phone, inside the small laser pod unit is broken into its constituent parts, the main laser unit itself, a diffuser, short dome and a tall dome plus the main adaptor.

You really wont need the instructions to put the unit together which is just as well as they are more like a leaflet for a religious cult than an electrical gadget, simply plug in the mains adaptor and your away.

Without any of the diffusers or domes attached the laser pod projects a pattern upwards onto a ceiling, this is a mixture of sharp red laser lights (a bit like a laser pointer) moving around in mathematical patterns and blue / purple backlights which look like clouds morphing into different shapes. To fully appreciate this mode you will need a dark room, in daylight only the red laser tips will be visible and the deeper blue and purple colours are lost.

For use in daytime or for a different effect that's where the attachments come in, the small dome acts a like a cap on the laser pod trapping both the lasers and the background projections and forming something which looks a bit like those electrical experiments you used to try in physics where peoples hair stood on end.

There is also a diffuser plate which softens this effect and you can swap for the larger dome which has a misty glass rather than the clear smaller dome, this gives a more mystical effect according to the religious instruction leaflet included with the pod.

So what do we think? well its certainly a very different item and is quite unlike a lava lamp, in a darkened room the lid off mode creates a quite stunning display but you may need a room the height of a hobbits house in order to get the real depth of colours, we ended up with it perched on top of a stack of CD's to get the right height. The domes work well with the smaller clear dome being the most effective the diffuser seems a little pointless and has now found its way back into the box where its most likely to stay.

At £60 the Laser Pod is not exactly cheap, but it is unique and quite a stylish item, it would sit well in or gadgets shop amongst the other stylish yet not entirely functional gadgets but for now you can only purchase direct from www.laserpod.com delivery takes about 3 -4 days.

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