Mimic is “Reborn” as a Beamer

The Mimic laser jammer first made headlines on RadarDetector.net, when dealers started touting it as the most powerful and affordable laser jammer.
I was suspicious of these claims and quickly identified the Korean manufacture and contacted his sources in the industry.

Being familiar with other laser jammers that this same Korean company was also manufacturing, such as the First Strike and the Laser Tech I knew from my previous testing that they had little or no effect in jamming police laser guns at all.
I purchased five Laser Mimics directly from a Washington State distributor that has been referred to as the “Goons” for their misleading testing and self promotion.
Two of these Laser Mimics were tested at the Speed Measurement Laboratories 2005 Radar Detector Shoot Out. A certified police officer used an LTI Ultralyte LR 200, a Kustom Pro Laser III and A Stalker LZ-1 laser gun to test this unit. The Laser Mimic performed very poorly and was only 14% effective at jamming all these guns.
As word quickly spread through the US radar detector and jammer marketplace of the Mimic’s poor performance, other dealers and distributors in the USA quickly dropped this product!

This week I was contacted by Stig who has a Norwegian blog that discussed speed countermeasure equipment and asked me if I was familiar with a new laser jammer that was being sold on European websites called the “Beamer”. From the links he provided I quickly identified the new Beamer as the old Mimic.
This morning Stig published a warning to the European marketplace on his bog: www.laservarsler.info/beamer_laserjammer.htm
Hopefully our efforts will help educate the consumer about these unscrupulous  merchants and products and put an end to these cheap and ineffective laser jammer knock offs.

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