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Laser harps need no strings
Harps have been around since time immemorial, or so do the paintings by some ancient artists say. They have angels plucking at the strings of the instrument, singing glory to god. These pretty angels would be glad to know that they wouldn’t need to scar their fingers no more, with all the plucking that they…
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Guitars with LEDs should have belonged to Pink Floyd
With all the light shows that their gigs were famous for, Pink Floyd could really do well with these cool LED lit guitars on stage. Thanks to the illumination he has added to this lucky Gibson guitar, Moritz Waldemeyer has become a brighter face in the crowd. However, these were mainly created for the Indie…
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Laser Crosswalk could keep overzealous drivers off the gas with a light show
Lasers and projections are all the rage these days. But let’s forget about the disco and weaponry use we would imagine for this technology for minute. We have seen lasers used in quite a lot of humanitarian fields as well including the medical. Now, it just might come to pass, thanks to a brilliant concept…
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LIDAR Equipped Wheelchair Being Designed for the Blind and Physically Disabled
GPS enabled devices have taken on a new avatar for helping the disabled. A wheelchair that was designed by developed at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania USA, uses LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) to assist the blind and the physically disabled with getting around in cities. The system used is able to pinpoint the wheelchair’s current…
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Microvision miniature Laser projector
Portable pocket projectors were the craze at CES this year and now the attention is shifting to micro Laser projectors. At Japan’s Ceatec exhibition Microvision demonstrated the SHOWWX micro projector which uses a Laser as an illuminant. The projector uses the company’s PicoP image processing engine, it supports a resolution of 848 x 480 pixels,…
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Alessi watch uses Laser lights to tell the time
The mysteries of the laser light still baffle some design engineers; why else would they come up with such an audacious design for a watch. It looks like an ordinary bracelet, but press a button and it shows the time by lighting up your wrist with red laser pointed lights showing the time. It’s thankfully…
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Navy scientists develop underwater laser communication technology
A better tool for underwater acoustics has been developed by the researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory. The new system will use laser light to create sound underwater from a distance. If this works properly then the floating buoys will be a thing of the past if planes will have to communicate with submarines. Well…
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Laser bursts balloon inside balloon – Death Star to be refitted
Now this is something we outside of the MIT would not know. You can actually pop a balloon inside a balloon by playing around with laser wavelengths. As seen in the video the wavelength of the ruby laser is transmitted through the red balloon and is absorbed by the darker balloon inside. [Techeblog]
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Fighter jets electronics to be protected by laser etched metals
Most of the modern systems have a problem. They can’t take much heat! From the tiny laptop to the major weapon systems, the major concern was heat. The United States Air Force is mostly concerned with only this problem. Why it is so important is that if this is left unchecked, the heat created can…
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Navy wants laser weapons to ward off small boats
The US navy wants to test a high-powered laser against the threat of small boats or even jet skies that will be carrying RPG holding riders. The 98-million contract was taken away by Northrop Grumman for the Maritime Laser Demonstration in early July. Now they are on the mode of installing a prototype of the…
