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Finally, a Legitimate Excuse for Playing With Our Lasers! [Lasers]





We've made fun in past of Wicked Lasers and their vast inventory of seemingly useless laser devices. Now, at long last, it seems we've found a legitimate excuse for playing with out lasers. More &r...
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Researchers Turn Bubbles Into Laser-Controlled Microrobots [Video]





Of all the exotic space-age materials you can use to build a robot, we never thought bubbles would be a viable option. But researchers at the University of Hawaii have done just that with a microscopic ro...
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ASTAMIDS Fly-By Mine Detectors Save US Lives and Limbs [Monster Machines]





IEDs are far and away the greatest threat to our armed forces in Afghanistan, having killed nearly 700 soldiers since 2001 and accounting for roughly half of all US troop deaths in the region since 2008. T...
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Hundreds Of Balloons Fall Victim to a Giant Laser [Video]





Watching thousands upon thousands of dominos fall in series just doesn't excite us like it used to. OK, it was never really that exciting. So we're hoping the next fad has people using high-powered lasers...
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WEDDINGS



WEDDINGS
every wedding should be this epic
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Paging Dr. Evil of the Day



Sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads are now an actual thing, thanks to the folks at Wicked Lasers, who outfitted a lemon shark with a 50mW green laser.
The only surprise is that it took this long.
[wired.]
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Real Lasers on Actual Sharks [Image Cache]





Last week, a company called Wicked Lasers promised to attach lasers to sharks if enough people Liked the idea on Facebook. They did. It happened. It is awesome. More »



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Congress Wants Broken Laser to Zap North Korea's Broken Missiles [Lasers]





North Korea's missile program seems to be moving backwards, with its latest failed launch crapping out earlier than its 2009 dud. Yet House Republicans still want a flying, missile-zapping laser cannon to ...
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Super-Precise Laser Scalpel Minimizes Collateral Damage [Medicine]





An ultra-fast tiny laser can work as a miniature scalpel inside the body, making careful incisions or excisions while leaving healthy tissue intact. It is more effective than a doctor's metal scalpel or ev...
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Even Ensign Jimmy Has a Fighting Chance with This DIY Phaser [Video]





We may have a few years to go until the advent of Warp Drive technology (fingers crossed for 2063) and full-fledged Tricorders, the development of Phasers is well under way. Behold the balloon-popping eff...
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Laser Sharks Are Coming to an Ocean Near You [Video]





You know what future? You can keep your flying cars and ray guns and sex bots (actually, scratch those last two) because the future that 1997 promised me is finally, actually happening. That's right—...
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OSU Powers Up a 500 Trillion Watt Laser [Fusion]





We've got a pretty good handle on creating short fusion reactions, just look at the H-bomb. But in the 60 years since the weapon's invention, we still haven't figured out sustained fusion reactions—t...
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Who Cares About Slingshots When This Crossbow Fires Spinning Saw Blades? [Video]





We've got nothing but undying love for slingshot master Joerg Sprave. But if we had to select a weapon of choice, it would probably be Patrick Priebe's saw blade-launching laser-sighted Blade Driver crossb...
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How the Civil War was Won



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And Lo! Another Useless Laser Was Born [Lasers]





Laser lovers everywhere will delight in the knowledge that the world's #1 bestselling laser company, Wicked Lasers, has developed yet another laser with which to do their unspecified lasery things. More...
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Video: Fly Through the World’s Most Powerful X-ray Laser

A few millionths of a second is all it takes for electrons to traverse the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, but this new time-lapse video (above) makes the half-mile trip in 37 seconds.
The Linac Coherent Light Source, or LCLS, uses magnets to ac...
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How We'll Control Lightning with Laser Beams [Science]





The lightning rod hasn't exactly needed improvement since its inception by Ben Franklin in 1749, but that isn't stopping a French research team's efforts to replace the charge-catching metal poles with fri...
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LASERS



LASERS
Nothing to it
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A New iPad Annihilated in a Storm of Lasers and Flame [Video]





It's only human to want to destroy beautiful things. We smash temples, palaces, vases—sometimes you just need to let loose. Now, here's an iPad being lasered and torched into a flaming heap. More...
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This Futuristic Camera Can See Around Corners Using Lasers [Cameras]





A group of scientists have developed a camera that can take pictures of things that are hidden by walls. Not through X-Ray vision but with the ability to see around corners. That is, if an image is blocked...
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Laser-Tuned Nuclear Clock Would Be Accurate for Billions of Years

Researchers have proposed building a nuclear clock that would lose only one-tenth of a second over 14 billion years, the current age of the universe.
The design would be 100 times more accurate than current atomic clocks and might be used in applications...
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Laser Pulses Can Erase a Printed Page [Printers]





Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to recycle printed documents by simply vaporizing the toner off the page using laser pulses. The process can erase an entire page leaving...
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36 Truly Awesome Photographs of Lasers [Shooting Challenge]





Lasers. They're pretty much the most wonderful thing the Man has ever invented. So for this week's Shooting Challenge, you shot lasers, and lasers shot you. More »



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Watch the Fastest 3D Printer In the World Creating the Tiniest 3D F1 Car You Can Imagine [Video]





This is the London Bridge, St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, and the tiniest F1 formula car you can imagine, all printed by the fastest 3D printer in the world. Watch it in action in this video. More&n...
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Indy Goes Geek: Laser Mapping Helps Archaeologists
LIDAR planes map in "strips" that are stitched together by computer. (Topoflight)
By Curt Hopkins, Ars Technica
“This is it — the paradigm shift,” archaeologist Chris Fisher told Ars. “Just like the advent of radiocarbon ...
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Shooting Challenge: LASERS [Shooting Challenge]





Pew pew. Click. Click. For this week's Shooting Challenge, you'll be unleashing lasers. More »



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How Did a Laser Cool This Semiconductor To Almost Absolute Zero? [Science]





It's completely counterintuitive, but scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in cooling a semiconductor membrane to −452.2°F, almost seven degrees above absolute zero, using a powerful laser...
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RIP, Raygun: Pentagon's Laser Plane Laid to Rest [Military]





Yes, it sounds completely crazy: A 747 jumbo-jet, embedded with a powerful laser, that can shoot missiles right out of the sky. But for sixteen long years, the U.S. military tried to turn that idea - calle...
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Ring Presenter Gives You Unlimited Powers (Over PowerPoint) [Mice]





You won't be saving the world with Genius' new Ring Presenter, a sleeker, upgraded version of their Ring Mouse. But with a built-in laser and added PowerPoint functionality, you just might come to the resc...
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Spiders’ Hundreds of Fine Hairs Are Hundreds of Ears

Hunting spiders can not only watch your every move, but they can feel those moves, and that of their prey, through the air.
How their tiny specialized hairs do it has puzzled researchers for decades, but one team of scientists may have found a break....
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UK Police Will Squash Rioters by Blinding Them...With Lasers [Riots]





Paranoid about future unrest after this summer's riots in the UK, the British went and developed a laser rifle which can project a wall of light and temporarily blind a pack of rioters. More »...
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7 Holiday Decorating Tools For the Lazy Reveler [Video]





Even if you're chock full of Christmas spirit, it doesn't make putting up holiday decorations any easier. Particularly since you'll just have to tear them all down in a month. More »

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Parenting Fails: The Family That Mullets Together, Stays Together?






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How Your Laser Pointer Works, At Least In Theory [Video]





The next time you're annoying people from afar with your laser pointer, you'll have a greater appreciation for its bright and focused beam after watching One Minute Physics break down the theoretical scie...
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Europe's New X-Ray Laser Could Explain the Mysteries of Earth's Magnetic Field [Monster Machines]






Whether peering towards the center of the Earth or searching for Jupiter's "warm dense matter," our understanding of a planet's core remains largely theoretical. Europe's newest new laser array, however, ...
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X-ray Laser to Recreate Conditions at Earth’s Core

By Mark Brown, Wired UK
The very center of the Earth has been described as the “last white spot” on our globe: a mysterious super-hot chamber that we know surprisingly little about. An X-ray beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Fac...
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Here's the Air Force's Rulebook for Energy Weapons of the Future [Weapons]






The Air Force thinks the future of weapons isn't guns and bombs—it's Directed Energy Weapons—killing devices so sophisticated, most of them don't exist yet. But just in case, the AF's covering...
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How Apple's Supply Chain Dominance Let It Shoot Lasers Through Your Computer [Apple]






Apple's stranglehold over the whole of its supply chain allows it to get parts and tech in its products at a much faster clip than its competitors, but Business Week has a really interesting look at how t...
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Lasers Power Pentagon’s Next-Gen Artificial Limbs [Prosthetics]






The Pentagon's already got brain-controlled prosthetics, and they are a major improvement over old-school artificial limbs. The devices are far from perfect, however. They rely on metal implants, which ar...
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A Doctor Claims That He Can Magically Transform Brown Eyes to Blue with Lasers [Wtf]






There is something about blue eyes that can pierce another person's soul while also acting as a revealing window into your own. Brown eyes? Not so much. What if you wanted blue eyes, though? Color contact...
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Whiskey + Lasers = a Glass Full of Awesome [Booze]






You know what's great? Really good scotch whiskey. You know what's not great? Fake scotch whiskey. Worry not. Researchers at St. Andrews University have figured out how to test your whiskey's authenticity...
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Laser Carved Pumpkin Produces Impressive Results and Terrible Smells [Lasers]






In a stroke of pure genius, Jack Chalkley decided the intricate pattern he'd chosen for his pumpkin was too complicated for his limited carving skills. So he converted his design into vector art in Illust...
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It's Never Too Late to Build a Technological Tombstone of Terror for Halloween [Video]






This post isn't so much a DIY one as it is inspiration for all you tinkerer's in the audience to really deck out those front porches with insane scratch-built projects for the Trick-or-Treaters on Monday....
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FAA Enlists the Web For Reporting Laser Shenanigans [Lasers]






Every year laser pointers get brighter and cheaper, and every year the number of incidents involving some bozo shining one at an aircraft increases. In 2005 there were just 283 reports, but that number ha...
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The Air Force's Rocket-Killing Megawatt Laser That Runs on Rocket Fuel [Video]






Until that Missile Defense Shield I've heard so much about is realized, we'll just have to rely on this megawatt laser mounted on the front of a Boeing to blast warheads out of the sky. Works for me Mo...
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Clothing Store Body Scanners Know Your Every Curve [Clothing]






Finding a new pair of jeans probably takes longer than it should since you usually waste a lot of time trying on sizes you think should fit, but never will. So like a best friend who's not afraid to tell ...
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Yale Stores Data Mechanically—with Frickin' Lasers [Memory]






Engineers at Yale University say they've invented a new type of mechanical memory device that is read from and written to by light. According to its creators, this development could lead to better sensors...
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The ZEUS Is All PEW PEW PEW Before Land Mines Go 'SPLOSION [Monster Machines]






You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have Humvees with frickin' laser beams attached to their roofs! The US Army is already developing them? Oh well, that's a start. More »
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Jackass Shooting Laser Pointer at Helicopter Is Hunted Down by Cops Within Minutes [Video]






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 co...
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NASA's Testing Laser Internet. In Space. Laser. Space. Internet. [Space]






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 ...
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