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Lasers aren't as rare as they may have been a couple of decades ago, but they're no less cool. Especially homemade lasers capable doing some actual damage. Granted, the damage is to balloons, but it's no less spectacular.
Who wins when you pit a Blu-ray laser against 100 balloons? Well, the answer sho... |
3 May 2013
14:21 GMT |
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The Navy will start using laser weaponry that can burn through drones and any other kind of vehicle, boat or aircraft from afar.
A demonstration on how the technology works has been uploaded on YouTube and marked as the Laser Weapon System (LaWS).
CBS News quotes Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder who mentions that the... |
9 April 2013
09:42 GMT |
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While US citizens are still waiting for the White House to decide whether or not it will soon begin work on the nation's first Death Star, a German company named Rheinmetall Defense successfully tested a high-energy (50 kW, to be more precise) laser.
The testing activities for this state-of-the-art laser took ... |
8 January 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Satechi has one cool iPhone accessory on its hands. The X-Pointer Mobile Presenter converts your Apple handset into a full presentation controller, complete with laser pointer and the ability to flip through slides from the Multi-Touch display. At just $29.99 (€23.4), Satechi’s X-Pointer Mobile Presenter ... |
9 November 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing, an HP-developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser-based printers in Linux, is now at version 3.12.10. Highlights of HP Linux Imaging and Printing 3.12.10: • Support for HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 2020HC/ 2520HC Printer was added; &bul... |
8 October 2012
05:33 GMT |
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Laser image projection is the solution that IT players came up with in their quest to create true pico-projectors, which are both compact and powerful.
Panasonic has become the creator of the world's thinnest 100-lumen projector module yet.
Otherwise called OIU (optical imaging unit), it is only 75 mm-thick (2... |
4 October 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Calling a laser a “trip wire” is not exactly grammatically correct, since it is not, in fact, a wire, or even solid, but the metaphor works since the overarching purpose can be the same: detecting and/or preventing the intrusion of unwanted company.
The folks at Liquidware custom-rigged a laser-based al... |
21 August 2012
09:08 GMT |
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Kip Kedersha (KipKay on YouTube) is showing off one of his latest projects, if you can call it that, which involves the third-generation iPad, a bunch of lasers, a Flash Torch, and the Solar Death Ray. Pretty much everyone knows where this is going, right? Not that the headline hasn't given it away already, but... |
6 April 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Paper printing is an intrinsic part of life, all those tons of used paper go to waste eventually and there is always the need for more blank sheets in case someone wants to print something else.A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge in England may just have a solution to this problem, at least as far... |
16 March 2012
06:11 GMT |
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The X4000 and X5000 aren't all that different from each other and, indeed, they look mostly the same, but they are distinct peripherals nonetheless.
The X4000 has a regular scroll wheel and a battery life of up to 30 months, while the other one has a touch scroll and up to 24-month life.
Power is provided by a... |
15 December 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Inventor Gregg Homer has created a laser that can be applied on a brown eye, depigment it and turn it blue. The procedure is not available just yet, but it's already causing heated debate among critics and those who are dreaming of getting it one day. Brown-eyed people already have an option of making their ey... |
15 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Light really has become the foundation for the next breakthroughs in terms of data transmissions, so Stanford University researchers took it upon themselves to develop a new LED-based technology. Cutting right to the point, computer chips with LED-based optical communications will be about 2,000 times more efficien... |
17 November 2011
08:07 GMT |
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Logitech launches a new mouse just now, one that bears the name of M525 and is available in five colors, to suit a variety of tastes. The product has a Unifying receiver and a so-called micro-precise scroll wheel, plus a pair of AA batteries that can last for up to three years. The 2.4 GHz wireless technology is ... |
17 October 2011
07:55 GMT |
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It is more or less true that one can get away with many things if they shout the right reason (as long as no one is hurt anyway), and there is little doubt that 'double HDD capacity' will work just fine for TDK's latest pet project involving lasers.
Laser-based technologies are getting steadily mor... |
10 October 2011
04:40 GMT |
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It appears that Gigabyte is continuing with its tactic of offering products for a whole bunch of different market segments, in this case that of peripherals, the wireless peripheral market in particular.Gigabyte may have shown off various PCs and motherboards during Computex, but it looks like the outfit hasn't... |
16 June 2011
05:07 GMT |
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Gigabyte is mostly known for its many motherboards and video cards, but it also deals in peripherals, as made abundantly clear by its most recent mouse, a wireless model with LED lighting and a long battery life.Back when wireless peripherals were first developed, they didn't sell much because of their higher p... |
8 April 2011
05:03 GMT |
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It seems that the field of cooling research is not the only one that reached a milestone, as a certain team of scientists claims to have created a new laser diode with the potential to enable high-speed data transmissions applicable in many areas.Laser diodes are used in many pieces of hardware nowadays, like periph... |
17 March 2011
07:06 GMT |
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When she decided there was no saving her marriage to Tony Parker, Eva Longoria must have realized she would soon have to remove more than just her wedding ring. The star recently had her wedding tattoo lasered off. One of Eva’s many tattoos included, until not long ago, a small one on the inside of her wrist, w... |
11 January 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Laser pulse fights wrinkles and rejuvenates the skin, a new research carried out by Susanne Dams at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has shown.Dermatologists and beauticians already use laser treatment, and for a while now, but the impact on the skin and the underlying processes have not been fully investiga... |
22 October 2010
06:34 GMT |
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We are talking about laser, of course, as an association of British and European laser scientists have proven theoretically that developing new energy sources will become less expensive, manufacturing processes will become more advanced and all this thanks to a new laser technology.In theory, a new, groundbreaking me... |
11 October 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Kelly Osbourne, former enfant terrible of the celebrity world, is growing up and starting to realize that some of the things she’s done back in her “wild” days no longer mean anything for her: like, for instance, her many tattoos. Consequently, the reality star has decided to have them removed by la... |
7 October 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Although to many Roger McWilliams appears to be a person that stepped out of the past, he is actually at the forefront of modern science, creating extremely advanced laser devices. After 30 years of work, the bow tie-wearing expert is now investigating plasma lasers, which produce “matter so hot it's ioniz... |
24 August 2010
02:27 GMT |
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Richard Thalheimer, an entrepreneur who recently debuted his own line of portable charging solutions for iPhone, iPod and other smartphones, has announced RichardSolo 1800 for iPhone. It’s a charger that users connect to the iPhone to extend their battery life. The accessory also features a built-in LED flashli... |
9 March 2010
04:17 GMT |
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Microvision, a leader in the innovation of a new generation of display and imaging products for mobile applications, has introduced its new SHOWWX, the world’s first laser pico projector. Complying with "made for iPod" standards, the device connects to TV/Video-Out-capable devices, including the iPod nano, iPod... |
7 January 2010
08:57 GMT |
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The famed aeronautics company Boeing has announced recently that it has developed a variety of laser cannon that can successfully bring down unmanned aerial reconnaissance drones. The laser, mounted on the back of a Humvee, is capable of destroying the very probes that president Obama claims are the future of the US ... |
27 January 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Experts from the US Forest Service and the Carnegie Institution have developed a new laser system that allows them to use a plan for monitoring changes that might have occurred in tropical rain forests. The changes refer to the influence of outside intrusive plant species, as well as to the effect the spread or reduc... |
26 January 2009
03:19 GMT |
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A new revolutionary laser technology allows bicyclists to carry their own bike lanes with them, with the aid of a new portable device that basically projects the said lane on the street, as the person pedals along idly. The new invention was created specifically with the average bike rider in mind, as the number of r... |
16 January 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Battles fought in the heights with powerful laser weapons are no longer the product of SF stories, as such a device has recently been tested with success. The Airborne Laser (ABL) was installed on a Boeing 747 airplane and carried aloft, where it fired shortly upon a ground target. Although the laser beam is invisibl... |
16 December 2008
09:32 GMT |
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All flying vehicles share a common problem – fuel. Their flight duration ability is severely limited by the amount of fuel they can carry, which forces designers to resort to annoying compromises in order to develop craft models with reduced consumption that have enough room for giant fuel reservoirs. But this ... |
10 December 2008
04:39 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California came up with a technique that allows obtaining impressive quantities of antimatter. But as the antimatter suddenly became so easily available, two problems related to it subsequently occurred. The former refers to the possibility of st... |
2 December 2008
08:17 GMT |
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A European project funded by EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for research, called UROOF (short for Photonic components for Ultra-wideband Radio Over Optical Fiber), has high goals for data transmission and possibly many other applications in the future. The developing team, coordinated by Moshe Ran, has come up ... |
27 November 2008
04:12 GMT |
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Atsushi Uchida, a Japanese electrical engineer from the Saitama University, and fellow researcher Peter Davis, from the NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, have managed to obtain actual random number sequences at speeds of up to 1.7 GB per second. Their discovery will prove to be crucial for digit... |
24 November 2008
05:11 GMT |
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With NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX, all bringing their HD content to the iTunes Store, what else could possibly sound better than Apple's set-top-box hooked up to Mitsubishi's laser-enabled flat TV set?Mitsubishi, as some of you may know, announced earlier this year a revolutionary TV set, called LaserVue. As its n... |
30 October 2008
10:16 GMT |
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A new missile that can follow its target for about 10 hours or 100 miles (161 km) and then strike within a minute with surgical precision is being developed by the Ministry of Defense in order to support the British troops in Afghanistan against Taliban ambushers. The powerful weapon, officially dubbed Fire Shad... |
13 October 2008
09:41 GMT |
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We are likely looking at the first genuine picture of what is one of Apple's unassembled next-gen MacBooks, those who spotted it say. The design appears to confirm Apple's rumored manufacturing methods of carving the laptop's shell from a single, solid piece of aluminum.Earlier this week, Macworld drop... |
9 October 2008
02:51 GMT |
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Allegations that Apple is planning to craft out its own hardware casings out of aluminum bricks have spawned speculation saying the process is not quite feasible. Experts weighing in on the matter have divided opinions, raising even more questions.As reported before, a BusinessWeek piece has one analyst quoted as say... |
8 October 2008
03:43 GMT |
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An analyst at market research firm iSuppli going by the name of Kevin Keller believes Apple's "Brick" is indeed a laptop in the making. And, while such a radically different production method would boost costs in some areas, overall manufacturing costs would be lower, he claims. So, it's plausible.Yesterday... |
7 October 2008
03:11 GMT |
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IT Blogwatch is citing one of its own people as saying he has solved the riddle behind Apple's “Brick”. According to the blog posting daily digests of IT sources, there are clues that Apple products' cases are crafted by taking a “brick” of aluminum and carving it using a laser and w... |
6 October 2008
06:23 GMT |
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A newly-developed material made of optical fibers could soon lead to constructing laser devices operating at more different frequencies simultaneously.The newly-created material (cesium zirconium phosphorus selenium - CsZrPSe6) is able to add, subtract or double laser beam wavelengths, thus allowing for the deve... |
3 October 2008
09:05 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to "Say Goodbye to Laser" with its hardware division. The Redmond company is gearing up to unveil the items from its latest product lineup on September 9 2008. The software giant has already announced the event under the slogan "Say Goodbye to Laser," but has failed to deliver any sort of a... |
27 August 2008
19:59 GMT |
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Basically, any liquid column should be able to act as a guide for light, thus behaving similarly to optical fibers. The problem with these liquid fiber optics is that they become unstable after reaching a physical limitation known as the Rayleigh-Plateau instability which states that in free-fall conditions the lengt... |
30 July 2008
10:48 GMT |
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We often think of lasers as sharp, highly focused beams of light, but the truth is that most of the time lasers have high divergences, spreading light into beams similar to those produced by flashlights. This is especially true for semiconductor lasers, such as those used in building CD-ROM devices and in fiber-optic... |
28 July 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Carbon dioxide laser resurfacing is currently by far the best solution when it comes to wrinkle removal techniques, giving overall better results than some of the latest invented procedures. Most of the time the technique is successful in clearing up the skin, and the side-effects are relatively harmless, generally c... |
22 July 2008
04:49 GMT |
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The Vulcan laser, currently the most powerful in the world, was used recently to test future nuclear fusion reactor concepts. During the experiments Vulcan was able to heat matter to a temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the surface of the Sun which is averaging about 5,500 degrees Celsius. The rel... |
19 May 2008
09:17 GMT |
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The new breakthrough in laser technology comes from Harvard University researchers who have designed and demonstrated the first Terahertz coherent source using room-temperature electrically-pumped semiconductors. The terahertz laser sources commercially available today are based on nanotechnology fabrication techniqu... |
19 May 2008
05:49 GMT |
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A one-way mirror is basically just like any other mirror, just that it has the ability of reflecting light on one side while on the other, it is transparent. Typical mirrors achieve a high degree of reflectiveness on one side, leaving the reverse opaque to optical light. This is done by covering the glass layer with ... |
10 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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It all started in 1982, when compact discs became commercially available. They were the first optical devices used to store data in a digital format, have typical capacities of up to 700 megabytes, or 80 minutes in audio format, and diameters between 60 to 120 millimeters. In 1997, a new optical storing medium became... |
17 April 2008
09:13 GMT |
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During an experiment carried out in South Baldy Peak, New Mexico, European researchers using a high-power laser deliberately triggered electrical activity in two passing thunderstorms. Laser pulses created plasma filaments inside the clouds, through which electric current was discharged inside the clouds. However, no... |
14 April 2008
06:42 GMT |
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The Thomson-Radiate Extreme X-ray Source is an energetic light source emitting picosecond laser pulses and possibly one of the brightest laser light sources in the world at this moment. T-REX is a LLNL project developed in collaboration with the NIF & Photon Science Principle Directorate and the Physical Sciences Dir... |
7 April 2008
04:01 GMT |
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In August 2002, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, became operational and started looking for the elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein. It collected a massive amount of data, probably including some gravitational waves, however when scientists were put to the dauntin... |
3 April 2008
07:25 GMT |
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