When your iOS device is facing the wall, its camera monitors the field, using computer vision algorithms to detect your laser shots in real time, finally discovering a novel use for laser points that doesn't involve annoying rock bands or cats.
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Google's self-driving cars, which use laser sensors and mapping technology, are examples of Level 3 cars, Mr. Friedman said.
But they cannot use laser-disc players to watch movies on SD.
ThermoLase is an oddity: by adapting star-wars laser technology for use in depilatories, it has taken Thermo into the consumer-services business for the first time.
Mobeam converts barcodes, coupons, loyalty cards and gift cards into a beam of light that can be read by every one of the estimated 165 million laser scanners in use today by retailers around the world.
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But the Palestinians are getting little beyond sympathy: the world, as they see it, seems content to regard their uprising as a noisy prison riot, with the jailers just happening to use laser-guided rockets to enforce a lock-down on 2.3m people.
When you want to do something tricky with light, you often use a laser.
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They use either laser-scans of an original or prototype sculpture or a CAD file to direct the machines.
In addition they can sketch diagrams, use a laser pointer or run videos to aid employees in the field.
One actor was so intense in his delivery down to physical movements, laser eye focus and use of the room.
Those made by his firm use advanced laser-fluorescence technology: more accurate, simpler, cheaper and more robust, he says, than the gas-chromatography apparatus in common use so far.
To activate the altered neurons, they usually use a laser tuned to the proper wavelength and pipe the beam through a fiber-optic cable implanted in the brain tissue.
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According to Andy Mazzara, the director of the Institute for Non-Lethal Defence Technologies at Pennsylvania State University, prototypes of such devices use a laser to create an ionised channel of air through which an electromagnetic pulse is directed.
Another laser that came close to being practical enough to use was the Tactical High Energy Laser, also known as the Nautilus laser (pictured above), which was designed to shoot down incoming artillery rounds.
They will use GPS and laser technology to monitor the populations of Sulawesi crested black macaque.
In essence, these guys use a specialized laser cutting process that can etch out anything your brain can muster -- from band logos to company mantras.
While the driving lights are the first use of a laser beam reflected off a mirror, the daytime running lamps, with their characteristic "torch" effect, and the indicator lights use LEDs.
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But until recently, the only way to make lasers powerful enough to blow something tough into pieces was to use a chemical laser, which produces its energy through a chemical reaction.
"All the optics that are applicable to laser printers, you could use to scan the surface of something, " says Bruce, who works on FAST with five people from PARC and three people from Scripps.
Laser is the foundation of countless technologies we use each day: the Internet, digital media, computer hard drives, satellite broadcasting, laser eye surgery, and laser cancer treatment.
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Public educators can use 3D printers or laser cutters to make inexpensive copies out of plastic or cardboard at extremely low cost.
The suggestions that the United States has no need for a kinetic-kill ASAT capability for "the next decade or two" and that there are alternatives that already exist for negating or disrupting enemy space activities, such as destroying ground stations or jamming links, would also appear to rule out the use of the Airborne Laser program for anti-satellite purposes.
An intern's eyes were harmed by the incorrect use of a pulsed ultraviolet laser.
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However, the company, which uses a laser deposition process to make nanomaterials for use in components to be sold to networking equipment players, faces a tough battle.
But if you use just one, I think laser is a more well-rounded solution.
Electrical engineers at Stanford University have created nanoscale optical lines that use much less power than the laser connectors found in computers today.
Exercise, use of stockings, injections, surgery and laser treatments are all options, she says.
All-optical switches use micromirrors, which were originally developed to bounce laser beams around the surface of a silicon chip.
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You can add a wireless camera to use it for remote spy tactics or strap on a laser pointer to burn enemies' corneas play mean-spirited red dot target jokes on your friends.
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