As a kid, having a slingshot is one of the coolest things to show off to your friends. Even if it is, usually, just a piece of wood, some rubber, and something small enough that you can fling at some unsuspecting person. The idea is cool, in of itself. But, what if someone decided to make it better? That's exactly what KipKay asked, and then he went about and actually made it happen. So, now instead of a hunk of wood and some rubber, you now have some aluminum chunks, some rubber, and a laser-guided system.
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NASA Fires Lasers at the Moon to Track Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Yesterday night was the "International Observe the Moon Night," and obviously one large government agency probably took that to heart. And if you can't have fireworks to celebrate a day where you're supposed to stare at your favorite moon, why not lasers? NASA took the time last night to locate and track the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is handled by lasers fired from Earth.
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University of California Berkeley Researchers Create Portable Laser Backpack, Used to Map 3D Interiors
While Google is busy mapping out the exterior world, where all our streets and buildings are, there hasn't been much work on the interior part of the whole thing. But, considering the amount of security issues that may be red flagged in any kind of effort, it will probably be a few years before something like this portable laser backpack, which is used to create 3D maps of internal spaces, sees the light of day in the private market. But, that doesn't mean the Air Force can't get their hands on it.
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Laser Used to Create Artificial Star 56 Miles Above Earth
Lasers. They can be used for a wide variety of things, or utilized in all sorts of methods, to create all sorts of different results. For all intents and purposes, lasers are the Jack of All Trades when it comes to high tech things that could be used as weapons. Or, in some cases, a good defensive tool. But, for one observatory and its researcher and scientists, they think a laser can be used to create an artificial star. And that's exactly what they're doing.
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University of Michigan researchers develop laser to fool missiles fired at helicopters
Dr. Evil may want sharks with frickin' laser beams, but the US military wants lasers on all manner of aircraft and other combat vehicles. Typically, when we hear of lasers being used by the military they are to destroy missiles and attack targets on the ground.
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LucasFilm Retracts Cease and Desist Letter to Wicked Lasers
Wicked Lasers has been on somewhat of a roller coaster over the last month. Ever since they debuted the Wicked Lasers Spyder III Pro Arctic, people have been saying how amazingly similar it looks to the Lightsaber. You know, the one from Star Wars. Well, apparently a few folks over at LucasFilm thout it looked like a Lightsaber too, so they actually sent the company a cease and desist letter. Of course, Wicked Lasers subsequently put the letter on eBay, but that isn't the point. Today, though, LucasFilm has changed their mind, and retracted the letter from Wicked Lasers.
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Lucasfilm thinks Wicked Lasers Pro Arctic Laser looks like a lightsaber too
Remember that awesomely powerful laser I mentioned a while back called the Pro Arctic Laser from Wicked Lasers? You know the one that can burn skin, blind users, and catch stuff on fire. It reminded me and a bunch of other geeks of a lightsaber.
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Mitsubishi LaserVue HDTV is 75-Inches of 3D-Readiness
It's been a long time since Mitsubishi's LaserVue made an appearance in the real world. Something like 2008, if our checks are right. It could have something to do with that whole halt in production (which was thankfully temporary) which was announced earlier last year. We can happily announce that LaserVue is back on the scene, and this time around, it's touting 75-inches of 3D, HDTV awesomeness.
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Wicked Lasers Spyder III Pro Arctic laser pointer isn’t from a galaxy far, far away
Wicked Lasers has been making laser pointers that are more accurately described as laser burners. These aren’t the sort of lasers that you would actually use to point things out during a presentation, unless you wanted to be able to burn those folks who fall asleep on you.
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Laser Command game uses LED array for input as well as output [Video]
Oh Arduino, is there anything you can't do? There's plenty to love about Eiji Hayashi's home-made Laser Command game: its palm-sized cube form-factor for a start, the simple 8x8 LED matrix display and its minimal controls, but it's the fact that you play the game by shining a laser pointer at the screen that really impresses. Input takes advantage of the fact that the LED matrix can not only output light when current is applied, but output current when light - such as from the laser pointer - is applied.
Video demo after the cut
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DIY laser jacket is dazzling success
The money shot for this laser jacket is after the cut - dozens of red beams shooting out from all directions - but I can't get past this close-up of the spiky laser assemblies themselves. The handiwork of Wie-Chieh Shih, 200 lasers were added to a jacket intended to be worn at a DJ stage show.
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Scientists use powerful laser to create clouds over Germany
Anytime a story involves laser beams you have my attention, and I make that weird little Dr. Evil hand gesture at the corner of my mouth. Scientists in Germany have devised a new method of creating clouds using ultra short and powerful laser pulses. The team has so far succeeded in creating clouds in a test chamber in the lab and in the skies over Berlin, Germany.
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