Chinas Laser-Mückenabwehrsystem tötet 30 Insekten pro Sekunde
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/photon-matrix-laser-mosquito-killer
Chinas Laser-Mückenabwehrsystem tötet 30 Insekten pro Sekunde
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/photon-matrix-laser-mosquito-killer
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They are working on a model for humanoid intruders, this is just step 1.
Imagine stepping outside, a mosquito buzzes past your face and suddenly you’re blind because of Chinas anti aircraft insect lasers.
The article says that it scans for larger objects like humans, but what about a laser reflecting off a shiny surface and hitting someone’s eye?
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Pretty cool idea. And it’s absolutely amazing how cheap lidar has gotten. But will it essentially kill all flying insects like moths too, I know it states the max speed to kill, but damaging a wing is probably a death sentence too.
Edit: the full listing does give the exact specs and that it will kill other insects, anything in the range of 2~20mm as long as it’s moving slow enough
“In 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation asked Intellectual Ventures to find a way to fight and eventually end malaria.[1] There, astrophysicist Lowell Wood had the idea to use lasers.[1] Their project received considerable media attention around 2010,[2] but the device was still under development as of 2017.[2]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
Ah yes, just what we need. The quicker method of insect obliteration
Hopefully this goes better than their war on birds.
Will sell my soul for one of these, hmu China.
This will definitely be a plot point in a future bugs life movie
Maybe China should remember the time when they tried to kill off all the sparrows.
I’d love a device like this that could focus on killing specific pests.
For example: if it could zap Japanese beetles off roses without killing the roses. Or similarly scarlet lily beetles.
„using anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes“ https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/using-a-cannon-to-kill-a-fly-phrase
vaporware.
this was in the news 4+ years ago. never released. my best guess is safety….
It will kill any and all flying insects including the beneficial ones. May as well just bomb your house with bug spray at that point.
an oscillating fan outside ⚖️ lasers
This was tried ten years ago for malaria and dengue in africa. Even then targetting was good enough to only zap small flying things.
The problem was installing them so that they never blind a person or animal. They have to fo on 2 meter poles and only aim in a half sphere above that pole.
In an urban environment with buildings of varying heights this was deemed too risky.
A bug salt turret would be safer, but less effective and loud.
It’s hard to imagine that this is safe and place humans might be. Any laser that can do damage to a mosquito has enough power to damage your eyes. Yeah, I’m sure it’s designed to not target human eyes, but that’s assuming it’s pattern recognition never fails, and it never accidentally bounces a laser off something into your eyes.
If you can burn animal cells enough to kill a mosquito, you can burn enough cells to fuck up your eyes, especially after focusing that laser light through your eye lens.
Modify that for stinkbugs and spotted lanternflies and I’ll but one.