'Death Ray' Burns Hand of Argentina's Lionel Messi (SAT PAR News Jun 13, 2014) Lionel Messi injured his hand in a practice session for Argentina in their World Cup campaign for a match against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Messi was using an official regulation ball which has high power lasers that beam data back to a control center. FARO the global tech company which makes the laser implants for the ball released a statement, "The 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer ball contains 3D scanning lasers in an assembly known as a Holofield Array which will record the balls position in the playing field in 3D space to 1/10,000 inch. These will be used to create a high resolution video game and are also available for judges real time use in decision making. These lasers are powerful as the need to scan a large field for mapping and transmission, the ball gets its energy by from a electromagnetic grid  incorporated in the goals. Each ball has eight lasers, one of these malfunctioned and initiated a surge that burned Lionel Messi's palm. The surge blew out the laser device in the process, we believe it was not the laser itself but the circuit board under the ball of the skin that may have actually caused the burn. But a power surge in the laser could indeed cause a burn. We regret that this anomaly occurred and are testing all remaining installations of the Holofield Arrays" Lionel Messi for his part said, "It is not a deep burn, I have a bandage on it, I am good."