As the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, they managed to hold significant numbers of isolated rubidium atoms in place by shining a laser beam on to an array of microscopic lenses.

ECONOMIST: Quantum computers

The researchers plan to solve this problem by using two laser beams focused through the same array of microlenses.

ECONOMIST: Quantum computers

TechShop's overseers have, quite cannily, begun to offer up a portion of the warehouse's 17, 000 square feet as office space, giving its members a shot at some prime San Francisco real estate, a flight of stairs up from an impressive array of machine tools -- laser cutters, water jets and more 3D printers than most mortals have seen in one place.

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The sensor, or an array of them, would record the movement of your hands while they type against a keyboard projected by laser on your desk, or even in the space in front of you.

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