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Laser Tag Now Officially An Olympic Sport, Type of [Olympics]
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The fashionable pentathlon will switch to using laser pistols for the shooting portions of the event inside the 2012 Olympics. Super cool sci-fi twist, or major puss move? Gone are the days of really using guns, and putting a visible hole in a bit of paper or cardboard duck cutout or whatever they did. ...
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DIY Laser Pointer Safety Test [Safety]
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Whether you're a typical presentation giver or you only wish to pop balloons and start fires, laser pointers are getting way more common, albeit unsafe, household objects. Here's tips on how to build a small rig to discover your laser pointer's safety. A recent study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that some ...
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Scientists Create World’s First Laser Pacemaker [Lasers]
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Scientists have successfully controlled a living creature's heart with a laser beam, taking a first step towards technology that would prevent serious heart defects. The procedure used pulses of light to pace the guts of a two-day old quail embryo. The research team, headed by Michael Jenkins at Case Western Reserve University, stuck a small laser ...
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Infrared laser shown to quicken heart rate, gives hope for ultra-small pacemakers
Here's a fascinating one. Just years after a researcher in Japan realized that lasers could stimulate nerves, a professor of biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University which includes cohorts from Case Western Reserve have found that an analogous is correct with the heart. By an Infrared laser on an early embryonic heart, tests were ready to ...
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Laser Backpack Builds Instant Virtual Interiors [Laser]
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A UC Berkley team has built an immense room-scanning backpack, brimming with lasers and cameras, which may map an interior and generate a 3D model. The prospective utility for services like Google Maps is very large, but additionally, laser backpack. Using four cameras (pointing up, down, right, and left) and four corresponding lasers, the backpack measures ...
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Laser backpack creates instant 3D maps, Venkman reminds you to not cross the streams (video)
Total protonic reversal? Small price to pay for a right away 3D scan of a building\'s interior. That\'s what the backpack pictured above delivers, a project from UC Berkeley students and school Matthew Carlberg, Avideh Zakhor, John Kua, and George Chen. The pack incorporates a suite of laser scanners and positional sensors that enable it ...
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Sony, Tohoku University develop blue-violet laser with 100 watt output, eyeing 1TB optical disk future?
As much as some want to envision a global entirely bereft of disk-based media, with Blu-ray being the medium\'s swan song, that ain\'t happening. Sony\'s already trying to the long run, and in cahoots with Tohoku University, it has developed a blue-violet laser in a position to 100 watt output. That\'s reportedly more than 100 ...
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Is Sony developing a new laser to replace Blu-ray?
a contemporary announcement from Sony researchers revealed the improvement on a new variety of blue-violet ultrafast pulsed laser for optical disks. Feels like it'd be time to modify formats again! To be fair Sony just announced they were developing the laser, they didn’t actually say anything about bringing it to market yet, or perhaps if it ...
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Daily Crunch: Laser Egg Edition
New pics of U.S. Navy-Raytheon\'s laser attack WD40 goes old-fashioned – pick up a can while supplies last Take perfect panoramas with a modified egg timer POV displays for Ping Pong (and find out how to make your personal) a handy guide a rough PSA on “dots” versus “pixels” in LCDs Source
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New pics of U.S. Navy-Raytheon’s laser attack
Well, well, well. Yesterday morning I wrote a brief thing concerning the U.S. Navy and Raytheon\'s successful laser attack in the midst of the Pacific Ocean. Several hours later DRUDGE~! runs a similar story way up top, in bold red font. The point is: I beat Drudge. Yes! I bring this up because, inside the ...
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‘Better than Star Wars’ laser shoots down flying aircraft for first time in history
There\'s no approach to begin this next story without breaking out this movie quote: “If I were creating the arena I mightn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One!” With that out of how, for the first time in human history a laser was used to ...
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NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video)
Robonaut2 may have fantastic biceps, but raw muscle won’t put a man humanoid on the moon — that takes rockets. Rockets like the one in this RR-1 prototype lander, recently outfitted with a Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment (GENIE) s…
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Rumor: Google Music Hasn’t Signed Any Labels Yet [Google]There's an exceedingly attractive job going at Google, with the company looking for someone to move up its Music launch later this year. Meanwhile, Android dude Andy Rubin is working with the team closely, and even meeting with record labels. Why Rubin? Well, we was the brains behind Android (with Google buying Android from him and hiring him in 2005), and it's believed their Music