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more about #laser more comments → NorwoodIsMyHero: I wonder if I could create a DIY one with my old Virtual Boy. more » PipeRifle: Keep in mind he says that "[they] have scanners that go up to 40 microns." Those might not necessarily be as compact as the one in the video, which on... more » spudhed: umm arent laser weapons banned? more » drivintin: I am pretty sure this is old news. I saw on tv where they did the test firing and it was pretty far off target. Thankfully the target they did hit w... more » slim934: Why would I want to fire both a laser & a 25mm bullet? more » Shook-Yang: Governor Tarkin? I thought he was Grand Moff Tarkin? more » aek8: Does anyone else hate this era of crazy acronyms we live in? Just give something a new name or call it something appropriate rather then bending logi... more » Norbs: Hmm they should put one of these on imaging satellites and then add a "Fire" button in Google earth. Just seems logical... Come to think of it I'm pr... more » Voyou_Charmant: I'm so glad the future of killing machines is finally here. more » david.nikdel001: This is horrible! I can already see it escalating: We build a laser, they build a mirror. We build a bigger laser, they still have a mirror... oh wait. more » VVhistler: So if this thing misses, does it penetrate the atmosphere? more » Pessimippopotamus: Kinetic-laser hybrid eh? Soon I shall have my Giga Fortress!!! more » DustyButt™: A high powered ray combined with 25-mike-mike... Heating and ventilation. Put it on my corporate card please, thanks. more » MarcusMaximus: "also tested the Laser Avenger, a kinetic-laser hybrid weapon that fires a high power death ray coupled with a 25mm machine gun." OK, come on, that's... more » ripfire: General "Pinpoint" Townes would be pleased. more » -
#3d
Spacy ZScanner Shoots Lasers, Just Not of the Pew-Pew Variety
Z Corporation's Z-Scanner looks like a 23rd century View-Master, and in some ways it is. This scanner uses lasers to capture complex forms in 3D, with resolution up to 40 microns. Set shields to full for the hands-on video below! More » -
#weapons
Photo of Boeing's Matrix Laser Destroying an Air Drone
Boeing has successfully tested their new Matrix laser over airborne targets, which is a world's first. In total, they shot down five drones at various ranges. That's a lot of pew pew in a day. More » -
#networks
USAF's Ultrawideband Laser Networks
The US Air Force is not only experimenting with lasers to kill missiles. They are now using them to transmit data from planes and drones, at 22 miles and enabling quantum encryption. They did it with adaptive optics: More » -
#household
DIY Laser Hair Removal And DIY Botox Markets Expanding
I love DIY projects, lasers, and chemistry sets as much as the next gal, but the whole do-it-yourself laser hair removal and Botox market boom is terrifying. Untrained individuals shouldn't be pointing needles and lasers at themselves. More » -
#science
World's Smallest Laser Paves Way for 100 Terahertz CPUs
Technically, it's not a laser, but something called spaser. Instead of photons, it uses plasmons, a particle only 44 nanometers across. It could push CPUs' speeds to hundreds of terahertz, according to Mark Stockman, professor of physics at Georgia State: More » -
#wrongmodo
How Not to Play With a Laser Pointer
OK people, let's review: Laser pointer, check. Doberman, check. Guy placidly sleeping on a sofa, legs wide open, and his crotch openly exposed, check. What could go wrong here? Yes. everything happened according to plan. [Thanks David] -
#hacks
DIY Laser Lighter: Because Smoking Wasn't Already Dangerous Enough
Experts warn that smoking doubles the chance of going blind in old age, so why not increase your odds with Kipkay's crazy (though admittedly awesome-looking) BIC-lighter hack. How-to video after the jump. More » -
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#robots
Full-Size Gundam Get Attacked by Laser During Inaugural Ceremony
I am not a full-size Gundam in Tokyo—although I want to be one when I grow up—but if I were attacked with greeeeeen lasers during my inauguration ceremony, I would get pretty damn pissed off. Then I would destroy everything in sight, and go to have a carrot cake and coffee afterwards. [Mainichi Daily News] -
#palmpre
How to Make a Palm Pre Look Like a Palm Full of Ass
We don't mean a palm full of ass in a good way—when were you not happy when you had a palm full of ass—but a palm full of something really disgusting. Yeah, this thing right here. More » -
#mods
Laser Synthitar Is Man's Only Weapon Against Sharks with Laser Beams
A shark with a laser beam is a pretty freaking deadly animal—so we understand. No one has lived to tell the tale. But when these sharks finally attack Man in mass, we'll have a plan. More » -
#lasers
Afterglow Allows You To Draw On Your PowerPoint Presentation With a Laser Pointer
Afterglow uses a USB camera to track the motion of a laser dot—effectively turning it into a drawing tool or a mouse. Now that is something every boardroom needs. More » -
#camera
World's Fastest Camera Uses Lasers to Boost Images
Keisuke Goda's team at UCLA have built the fastest camera ever, which takes an upwards of a whopping 6.1 million pictures per second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second. More » -
#laserplane
The Daily Show Mocks the Army's Unfeasible, Unaffordable Laser Plane, For Some Reason
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart spit in the face of real-world sci-fi by applauding the U.S. Military's elimination of its laser plane project. A plane. That shoots lasers. What's the problem, Stewart? More » -
#lasers
Lasers Become Weapons Grade For the First Time Ever
Northrop Grumman just made a laser that measures 105 kilowatts, just north of the 100 kilowatt bar that defense researchers have called the weapons grade cutoff. Pew pew indeed. More » -
#biewbiew
Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser
Sure, this project is the product of a great humanitarian impulse: wiping out malaria, which claims about a million lives a year. But you can tell the astrophysicists are having a blast with it, too. More » -
#space
Call to Arms: The International Space Station Needs Lasers
OK, let's cut the crap here, NASA: After today's near-evacuation, it's clear that you need weapons on the International Space Station. And don't forget to put web controls so we all can play. More » -
#weapons
Boeing Laser Avenger Shoots Down Incoming Enemy for the First Time
Boeing has shot down an incoming unmanned aerial vehicle using their new Laser Avenger system, which you can see in the picture. According to Boeing's VP for Directed Energy Systems, this is crucial: More » -
#gadgettattoos
Laser-Etching Hall of Fame: Eee PC Gets Tattooed With Every Super Mario Land Level
The Kotaku boys got a present in their email this morning—reader Chris engraved his Eee PC with every Super Mario Land level stretched sequentially on the case. Up close, it's even more beautiful. More » -
#copswithlasers
Cops Will Soon Be Zapping Drunks With Lasers Instead of Tasers
The Department of Justice is working on two new weapons descended from the Air Force's "pain beam" Active Denial System—and wants to put them in the hands of your local boys in blue.
