Roman Abramovich’s Eclipse has anti-photo ‘laser shield’

If you ask a young boy to spec out his ideal boat, you might hear of helipads, swimming pools, missile-proof hulls, mini-submarines and laser shields. Well, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is one of those people with the time and money to listen to his inner child, and he’s gone and put all of the above together inside a $1.2 billion 557-foot vessel of luxury and excess. The Eclipse will attempt to repel paparazzi with a laser system that is said to “detect CCDs” (we suspect they mean it detects the autofocus light), and responds with an intense beam of light that precludes unwanted photography. We don’t know how well the automatic system will work, but it must be fun to manually point the lasers at the paps and go “pew pew!“

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