LASERS

Jackass Shooting Laser Pointer at Helicopter Is Hunted Down by Cops Within Minutes

Keep this FBI video in mind next time you’re tempted to use that diabolical wicked laser of yours. The feds can track your air-menacing ass from the sky—provided you haven’t blinded them yet, of course. https://gizmodo.com/wicked-laser-s3-krypton-lightning-review-holy-christ-n-5834091 It happens very quickly. The chopper pilots get the equivalent of a flashlight to the face from the tiny…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 27

NASA’s Testing Laser Internet. In Space. Laser. Space. Internet.

Like I needed another reason to be jealous of astronauts. Looks like those short guys in white suits will be the first to play with 100Mbps laser-powered internet. We’ll be getting our Mars-porn about 20 times faster, thank God. This new system, which will be tested over the next few years, will bring ultra high-speed…

Space & Spaceflight Brent Rose Sep 26

We could soon use lasers to sniff out roadside bombs

For soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, the most dangerous threat comes not in the form of a bullet, but a bomb. According to NATO, improvised explosive devices (IEDs for short) account for over half of all deaths among coalition soldiers. Now, researchers have developed an advanced new bomb detection technique that uses lasers no more…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Sep 20

Laser Can Detect Roadside Bombs From a Distance

Scientists have a new laser sensor they say can detect roadside bombs, the cause of more than half the soldier deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. A team at Michigan State University published their research in the scientific journal Applied Physical Letters – but only in so much detail. Because of the laser’s sensitive nature, they…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski Sep 19

In This Battle Between Lasers and Lightning, Laser Won

Maybe this is the use the Wicked Laser was built for: LIGHTNING JOUSTING! Cold hard technology versus the awesome might of nature. And yet the red beam of man’s raw lust for power pierced through lightning’s heart unabated. Victory! https://gizmodo.com/wicked-laser-s3-krypton-lightning-review-holy-christ-n-5834091 Well, ok. What you see is the European Southern Observatory testing its Wendelstein laser guide…

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam Sep 10

IMPORTANT: BIG CATS VS. LASERS

All apologies to your domesticated furball, who I’m sure strikes adorably schizo poses chasing reflected light around your apartment, but come on. They can’t measure up against a freaking lioness versus a freaking laser. There’s just something so satisfying about biggie-sized feline frustration that doesn’t end in people getting torn to shreds by razor-sharp claws…

Biology Brian Barrett Sep 9

See microscopic animals with a laser pointer

A simple laser pointer can help you see the tiny bugs that crawl around in liquid all the time. Will this make you appreciate the simple ways to see the richness of life? Or will you bleach everything you come in contact with? Try it and see! A laser doesn’t have to be powerful to…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Sep 8

Wicked Laser S3 Krypton Lightning Review: Holy Christ Now It’s Green and Goes Into Space

The Wicked Laser odyssey of horror continues. First, they offered an underwhelming laser you couldn’t even buy. Then, they stuck two together. And now? A green one that’s twenty times brighter, twenty times more pointless, and twenty times as awesome. https://gizmodo.com/what-happened-to-wicked-lasers-spyder-iii-pro-arctic-la-5628925 Like The S3 Krypton is twenty times as bright as its blue predecessor, which…

Reviews Sam Biddle Sep 6

A Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is Pretty Much the Greatest Grade School Gadget Ever

You thought you were pretty awesome in grade school when you’d pull your laser pointer out of your TMNT pencil case and pretended to use it like a pen. Admit it, you did. I did. Well yeah, Griffin’s Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer makes that thing look like an outmoded unitasker. It’s supposedly for…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner Sep 1

NASA is using lasers to broadcast from space in HD

NASA is finally pushing to bring space communication out of the dark ages by boosting their data transmission rates from dial-up speeds to broadband. And they’re looking to do it with lasers. What does a laser communication system mean for all of us here on Earth? How about live, HD television broadcasts from future Mars…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 24

What’s One Billion Times Brighter Than the Sun?

In the rolling Berkeley hills, under a dome that once housed its Nobel-Winning predecessor, lies the Advanced Light Source: an X-Ray generating system one billion times brighter than the sun. The Advanced Light Source is the world’s first third-generation synchrotron light source in its energy range. Located in the Berkeley Hills of Northern California, the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 24

How to Make a Giant Chain Gun Even Deadlier: Give It a Laser Cannon!

BAE System’s Mk 38 chain gun was already a formidable opponent: a 250millimeter cannon capable of putting 180 rounds per minute into the air from the deck of a naval ship, strongly urging those without clearance to keep a safe distance (of about 2,000 yards). But in a tip of the hat toward what the…

io9 Clay Dillow - Popular Science Jul 26

How today’s military is using lasers to blow things up and light stuff on fire

Lasers have become common since their invention in the 1960s. We use them every day to read optical media like DVDs, to see if our shelves are level, measure distances, or just to point at things. There are lots of medical and industrial uses for lasers too, but what we really want to know is…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Jul 22

Make Beautiful Music By Outfitting Your Guitar With Lasers

M3i Industries has a new product that merges two of our favorite things: guitars and lasers. And this new pickup system has the ability to record the pitch of string before your pick has even hit it. What more could your want? This way this Laser Pitch Detection (LPD) Pickup system works is ingenious. A…

Tech News Kelly Jul 20

3-D Scanning and Reconstruction of Crash Scenes Will Save Cops and Drivers Time and Money

Police in England will soon deploy 3-D laser scanners to the scene of car crashes, saving time and allowing wreckage to be cleared from roadways more quickly. The 3-D accident reconstruction will also be more accurate than human-generated reports. In the UK as in the US, a car wreck involving injuries or fatalities must be…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - Popular Science Jul 15

Underwater laser microphones listen to the sea

Scientists have come up with a super-sensitive microphone that works underwater. What did it take? The same thing it takes to accomplish anything worth doing: lasers. There has always been a problem with recording sounds underwater. Although sound carries in water even faster than it does on land, technicians are forced into a Catch-22 situation.…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 24

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible by 100 Years of IBM

IBM’s Centennial anniversary is fast approaching (as in TODAY), and their 100 years of hard work shouldn’t go unnoticed. Behind every major technological advance, you’re likely to find IBM’s name floating around somewhere. Here are 9 of our favorite IBM-aided innovations. Personal Computers Without IBM, we wouldn’t have computers at all. From the earliest, most…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 15

It’s Once Again Time to Worry About Russian Lasers

It looks like X-Men: First Class isn’t the only thing cashing in on Cold War nostalgia this summer. Russia may also be reaching back to the past by reviving a Soviet-era laser project. Way back when (in 1977), the Soviets started putting a laser cannon on an Ilyushin-76 jet. Two models existed, one was put…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 14

Scientists Equip Living Cells With Frickin’ Laser Beams

We joke now about laser sharks and laser cats, but what if they were a reality? After reading about scientists who engineered laser-emitting biological cells, I’m fully prepared to welcome a weaponized pet into my family. A research paper, published by Nature, says that the scientists took Green Fluorescent Protein (commonly found in Jellyfish), and…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 13

Wicked Laser Sith: Dangerous and Probably Prone to Horrible Disaster

The Wicked Laser’s tale of infamy continues. The “laser pointer” was so powerful that you couldn’t really use it without the risk of permanent blindness. So hey, how about jamming two together? Plusses The $700 Wicked Laser Sith is dangerous and can only possibly be used for irresponsible, reckless activities. Shooting it in two directions…

Reviews Sam Biddle Jun 2

Jackass Shooting Laser Pointer at Helicopter Is Hunted Down by Cops Within Minutes

NASA’s Testing Laser Internet. In Space. Laser. Space. Internet.

We could soon use lasers to sniff out roadside bombs

Laser Can Detect Roadside Bombs From a Distance

In This Battle Between Lasers and Lightning, Laser Won

IMPORTANT: BIG CATS VS. LASERS

See microscopic animals with a laser pointer

Wicked Laser S3 Krypton Lightning Review: Holy Christ Now It’s Green and Goes Into Space

A Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is Pretty Much the Greatest Grade School Gadget Ever

NASA is using lasers to broadcast from space in HD

What’s One Billion Times Brighter Than the Sun?

How to Make a Giant Chain Gun Even Deadlier: Give It a Laser Cannon!

How today’s military is using lasers to blow things up and light stuff on fire

Make Beautiful Music By Outfitting Your Guitar With Lasers

3-D Scanning and Reconstruction of Crash Scenes Will Save Cops and Drivers Time and Money

Underwater laser microphones listen to the sea

Nine Everyday Tech Tools Made Possible by 100 Years of IBM

It’s Once Again Time to Worry About Russian Lasers

Scientists Equip Living Cells With Frickin’ Laser Beams

Wicked Laser Sith: Dangerous and Probably Prone to Horrible Disaster

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