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Displaying items by tag: Lasers

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has applied for a patent for using a laser charging module to charge several phones within a room simultaneously.

Published in Mobility

Logitech’s MX Anywhere 2 Wireless mobile mouse avoids attaching lasers to sharks and sticks them under mice instead, working on any surface including glass.

Published in Home Tech
Monday, 20 October 2014 13:41

ANU physicists build reversible laser tractor

Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have built a tractor beam that can repel and attract objects over a much longer distance than previously achieved.

Published in Energy
Thursday, 26 May 2011 11:46

Lasers, NBN - nothing is future-proof

The kerfuffle over radio shock-jock Alan Jones suggesting that 'laser' technology is better than the fibre-based NBN over which the 'lasers' would actually run on shows that while some people love to bash Alan Jones, the NBN is still an expensive white elephant.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
The science publications organization Scientific American has listed what it considers the top 10 science stories for 2009. They range from the collision of protons and a flu epidemic, to a world conference on climate. The SciAm slideshow highlights these major science stories in the year 2009.

Published in Biology
Thursday, 05 November 2009 20:56

Laser-powered robot works like a space elevator

The company LaserMotive has developed a laser-powered robot that can climb about one kilometer up a wire into the sky. The company just won part of the 2010 Space Elevator Challenge.

Published in Space
The first-ever phonon laser—a device that uses phonons, or the smallest discrete (quantized) unit of vibrational energy—has been created by German and U.S. scientists. The phonon laser uses amplified sound instead of light.

Published in Energy
Sunday, 07 June 2009 02:41

The eyes have it: Zap your wrinkles at home

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves an over-the-counter laser device to treat wrinkles around the eyes. Palomar Medical Technologies makes the announcement on Thursday, June 4, 2009, and Wall Street likes the idea. And, likely, so will people with wrinkles around their eyes!

Published in Health
Thin is in, with prototype LCD TV screens already thinner than the 2nd-generation iPod Touch, and Samsung has just done 0.1mm better than LG Philips’ previous record of 8mm. No word yet on when it will go commercial, but we do know the trick they’ve used to go go gadget thin...

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Thursday, 28 August 2008 11:00

It's the end for the 'œFrickin' Laser'

Microsoft are being coy about Blue Track, but some intrepid cyber-snoopers have uncovered what looks to be a new piece of hardware from Microsoft, the laserless mouse.

Published in Home Tech
Monday, 31 March 2008 06:25

Big screen projection from your cellphone

Microvision is this week demonstrating at the CTIA Wireless 2008 show in Las Vegas the prototype of a device that could be incorporated into a cellphone to enable the screen image to be projected large size onto a wall.

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