Posts Tagged ‘laser’
The U.S. Wants To Have A Word With You: A Plasma Effects Weapon Is In Development Now (Video)
April 6, 2018
The government and military use drones already. Man do they use drones! Imagine giving them lasers, too. But not just ‘pewn pewn’ ray gun lasers; though surely those are in development, as well. However, this tech is a new kind of way to weaponize with lasers.
The U.S. military’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, or JNLWD, is inching closer to a weapon that alters atoms to literally create words from thin air. It’s called the Laser-Induced Plasma Effect and, fingers crossed, they hope to be able to say intelligible words within the next three years.
– Patrick Tucker
Creating words from thin air! Think about it: Within three years, we are thinking that they will be able to aim a beam or something into a room and create a voice that sounds like someone is in that room. An enemy combatant is sound asleep, and they put a ghost voice in the room – no body, no drone, just a voice – to tell them something startling like, “There is nowhere to run. We’ve got you in our sights. See the red dot on you? Do… NOT… move!”
Scary, right? Especially if ‘they’ decide that YOU are the enemy.
Technology: Machine 3D Prints Metal Structures In Midair (Video)
May 26, 2016
You’ve seen us post on 3D printers here before; the slow, layering from the base up type. And those were cool. But what about incorporating laser tech and raw materials with a printer capable of generating objects made of metal in mid-air?
In this video, see the laser-assisted method developed by Wyss Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis that allows metal to be 3D printed in midair. Credit: Lewis Lab / Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
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Tags: 3D print metal structures, 3D printer, 3D Printing Metal in Midair, laser, lasering, metal structures, midair laser, nanoparticles, Wyss Institute | 
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