In the case of lidar, the waves are in the form of an infra-red laser beam.
That meant using apps such as BuyVia, Red Laser, Amazon Price Check, Decide, and ShopSavvy among others.
They have built an imaging system that uses an infra-red laser to penetrate areas of thick smoke and flames.
The team used a prototype to demonstrate the idea, hiding centimetre-scale objects illuminated with polarised green or red laser light.
Typically, this means customers get more and more information about your prices, quality, etc. through Google and mobile apps like Red Laser.
There are two versions of the Scoop pointer, one optimized for TV viewing, and one with a red laser pointer designed as a handheld wireless presenter.
Its boffins in Bangalore are working on projects ranging from a red laser to preserve food to a DNA nano-machine to deliver drugs to precisely the right spot in a patient's body.
The element to be purified is first incorporated into a chemical that can be turned into a gas. (In this case, the exact compound is still proprietary information.) Then an infra-red laser is shone through the gas.
Moving directly against scan-and-scram, Best Buy began a relationship with Red Laser, the company behind the mobile app that best enables showrooming: the app now lets Best Buy offer coupons and one-click ordering on Bestbuy.com to customers already in the store.
Microvision's current pico projection engine uses red and blue laser diodes and a frequency-doubled "synthetic" green laser to create a full color image.
LaserMotive uses special cells made with arsenic and gallium, which are better able to capture the near-infra-red wavelengths of its laser beam.
Pink walked the red carpet in a metallic laser cut leather top and floor-length chiffon skirt.
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The second laser, which produces red light, then stimulates particular sites to take the second shape.
He arrives with a netbook and, in a few minutes, shows me how to download software which has a big red button asking you to fire the laser.
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It has also scanned the surface of the planet using Mola (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter), which beams an infrared laser pulse towards the surface of the Red Planet 10 times a second.
Yes, the front-mounted laser makes a triumphant return, shooting out a red line to help you quickly orient your camera.
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By tuning the quantum cascade laser and measuring how much of the infra-red radiation is absorbed on its way to a detector, hazardous gases in between can be identified.
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