This is cool. I have one of their green laser pointers used for pointing things out during astronomy nights. I can't see the battery lasting too long in a 1W version but I guess lighting shit on fire with a laser is too cool to pass up.
THIS!!
DO WANT!!!
Relevant note: My birthday is 07/03!!:dancenana:
meeeee toooooCrap, there goes more mod money!:bash: Now I have to have one of these!:banana:
He gave the first public demonstration of the laser, which was cobbled together from parts found on eBay, at the annual TED conference in Long Beach, Calif., which features lectures and demonstrations by experts in a wide range of fields, including technology, politics and entertainment.
After hundreds of mosquitoes (which were kept in the hotel bathroom until showtime) were released into a glass tank, a laser tracked their movements and slowly shot them down, leaving their carcasses scattered on the bottom of the tank. While the demonstration was slowed down for public viewing, Mr. Myhrvold said that normally the lasers could shoot down anywhere between 50 to 100 mosquitoes per second.
Mr. Myhrvold played a slow-motion recorded video that showed what happened to a representative mosquito. As the insect flew, a sudden light beam struck it, disintegrating parts of its body into a plume of smoke. It fell, even as its wings continued to beat.
Mr. Myhrvold said the software detects the speed and size of the image before deciding whether to shoot. It would reject a butterfly or a human, for example, and more powerful laser blasts could be used for locusts. In regions afflicted by malaria, the lasers could be used to create protective fences around clinics, homes, or even agricultural fields as a substitute for pesticides.
that too.
whatever we know exists, the military has thats 10x better.....
If anyone gets one, you should combine that tech with this:
Using Lasers to Zap Mosquitoes - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Think of what you can program it for: squirrels, intruders, passing jets, etc.
wonder if it works on crabs lol :lol:
Aqueous or genital???
Do they have a shark mounting bracket?