Lasers Archive

  • Caught in a Trap Edition

    Caught in a Trap Edition

    Posted on November 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Video: Strange Japanese hamburger vending machine New system used to protect airplanes from lasers, soon to work against sharks with freakin’ lasers, too Ties made from old cassette tapes sort of feature audible playback

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  • New system used to protect airplanes from lasers, soon to work against sharks with freakin’ lasers, too

    New system used to protect airplanes from lasers, soon to work against sharks with freakin’ lasers, too

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    So the Federal Aviation Administration doesn't like guys like you and me shining lasers into the sky at airplanes. But what about real scientists looking to use lasers for real scientific research? The current rules require, essentially, a spotter to look for aircraft within twenty five degrees of the laser. Obviously, this is extremely prone to human error. This sounds like a job for science!

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  • Spooky Tesla Radio in a jar

    Spooky Tesla Radio in a jar

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments
    This fun little DIY device is labeled as a "crystal radio circuit in a jam-jar." But that description doesn't even to begin to do it justice. According to Tesla, this electronic wonder allows you to hear the disembodied, ethereal voices, of the, well, ether, I guess.

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  • DIY Proton Pack

    DIY Proton Pack

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Jeezum crow! This guy has made a fully functional (kind of) Proton Pack from Ghostbusters including a trap, ecto goggles, and some coveralls. He added a few lights controlled by an Arduino board. The best part? He added lasers to the blasters. Now he just needs to remember not to cross the beams and that your halloween party can be a promotional expense so you should invite clients instead of friends.

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  • Woot traffic as an indicator of financial stability: A treatise

    Woot traffic as an indicator of financial stability: A treatise

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    When in the course of human events people lose their jobs and their ways to pay for bags of random stuff and close-out smoke detectors, it behooves all good men to approach shopping site Woot.com with trepidation and distrust. The result? A steady decline in traffic from the post-holiday period of 2009 until about May [...]

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  • Boeing kills things on the ground with frickin’ lasers

    Boeing kills things on the ground with frickin’ lasers

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Well, it's not exactly a surprise, as they've been working on it for years, but Boeing just had a successful firing of their aircraft based military laser. So successful in fact, they managed to blow something up.

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  • Type much? Watch out for data-thieving lasers and power outlets

    Type much? Watch out for data-thieving lasers and power outlets

    Posted on July 12, 2009 | No Comments
    hamburglarArticles like this make me glad I lead a relatively boring life and rarely type anything interesting enough to steal (or even read?) into my computer. Hackers will demonstrate a couple new methods of data theft at Black Hat USA 2009 in Vegas later this month. Both methods involve reading which individual keyboard keys are struck from afar. One method reads the impulses through electrical outlets and the other uses a laser shined on a flat surface of the computer to detect the minute wobble generated when each key is struck.

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  • Review: Altec Lansing BackBeat 903 wireless headphones

    Review: Altec Lansing BackBeat 903 wireless headphones

    Posted on July 1, 2009 | No Comments
    The era of stereo Bluetooth is upon us. While A2DP - essentially the part of Bluetooth that enables stereo transmission of audio - has been around for years, it’s taken Apple two years to get off its duff and add it to the iPhone Bluetooth stack and, me being an iPhone LUVR, it took me [...]

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  • Video: Laser Bike Lane Gets Real

    Video: Laser Bike Lane Gets Real

    Posted on June 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember the LightLane, the laser-projected personal bike lane concept that put a pair of do-not-cross lines alongside the night-rider? It is now real and running as a rather successful looking prototype. The personal bike lane consists of strips of laser-light projected onto the asphalt. This provides a psychological barrier to other road users, hopefully giving the [...]

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