At TWB Co. a single laser welds steel sheets of different properties into a single raw sheet that Cadillac can have stamped into a door panel without any of its own welds.

FORBES: Man of steel

By firing co-ordinated beams of laser light through the BEC, Hau and colleagues have slowed light down to a crawl.

BBC: A Bose-Einstein condensate: It slows down light

Shambat built upon the architecture that co-author and fellow Vuckovic teammate Bryan Ellis had created for a nanoscale laser, an innovation unveiled earlier this year.

FORBES: Stanford Engineers Unveil An Optical Breakthrough

The projects on Brit.co are fairly simple and meant to be completed quickly, but many incorporate cool gadgetry such as 3D and laser printers, or wired elements such as Arduino kits, which are do-it-yourself computing and circuitry kits.

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