It was powered by a nuclear generator and bristled with lasers, scoops, cameras, and mechanical claws.
The U.S Navy is getting closer to arming its ships with lasers.
Gardenhire is the second person indicted under the new federal law making it a federal crime to target aircraft with lasers, according the U.S. Attorney's office.
Most attempt to build them with lasers and small chips, and tend to work in small labs and in teams of less than ten people, Barrett says.
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Curiosity came equipped with lasers, spectrometers, and a gas chromatograph.
The researchers scanned an enclosure with lasers to build up a 3D model of the environment, then filmed a pair of gibbons in high definition as they jumped between branches.
Friday is the last day they can submit proposals to the U.S. Army for the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, a system that may one day equip thousands of military helicopters with lasers that can jam the guidance of hostile heat-seeking missiles.
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One reason that it and the airborne laser were shot down was that military planners fell out of love with chemical lasers.
The trick: substituting the printer's continuous wave lasers with faster, more powerful pulse lasers that had finally become consistent enough to record clear pictures.
This is possible because with the lasers, the location of the ignition can be in the center of the air-fuel mixture, rather than just the portion closest to it.
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But using infrared femtosecond lasers with carefully selected wavelengths, a US team targeted viruses and bacteria without harming other cells.
Think of it as social media, only with swords and lasers.
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Optical technologies have revolutionized long-distance communications, replacing low-capacity copper wiring that carries electrical signals with combinations of lasers and fiber-optic cabling that send information over many high-speed channels.
The heart of the system is either an iOS or Android app (sorry MeeGo fans), but there are actual lasers with a custom enclosure as part of the platform.
There is one problem with nuclear fusion that lasers cannot solve, however: the price.
Experts are also taking a fresh look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 1996 Project Orion, a "space broom" concept to fry space trash with ground-based lasers.
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Even the sounds of rockets exploding and lasers blasting meld with the music, making the sounds of combat almost beautiful.
Holly Peters makes colorful gift cards with delicate scenes cut by lasers.
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He insisted that many of the things people complain about (screen dimness, glasses quality) will be improving in the next 12-18 months as the next generation of digital projectors incorporate lasers to help with image clarity and as glasses get lighter and the silver screens improve.
True, they don't shoot enemies out of the sky, but that, at long last, is coming--along with dozens of new applications for lasers as researchers develop new materials and techniques to generate different types of beams that can be more powerful and precise.
Technological advances have propelled today's lasers to achieve benefits previously impossible with older devices.
Femtosecond lasers can also be used to interact with other materials and generate particle beams for experiments, says Karl Krushelnick, of the University of Michigan.
With the London Philharmonic providing the audio backdrop, lasers are to light up the night sky, beaming across town to touch several landmarks: the London Eye, the Gherkin, Tower Bridge.
Matthew Warchus, whose last trip to Broadway was with "Ghost the Musical, " directs with the same addiction to special effects lasers, confetti, ghostly projections, gym mats, dancing strollers, animation, running between the aisles and pedestals rising from the stage but this time the hyperactivity fits perfectly.
Those researchers, who are affiliated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and other European organizations, used lasers to teleport a photon from one Canary Island to the other.
The lasers are designed to be efficient and ultra-fast, with speeds as high as 1, 000 megabits per second.
Alternatively, but also with major difficulties, one might depend on airborne or space-borne lasers to deposit enough energy on the missile's boost motor to destroy it before burnout.
These lasers are also used to treat acne, remove hair and deal with unsightly veins.
If Santa replaced his elves with refrigerator-sized machines that digitally assemble toys out of nylon dust and lasers, his workshop might look something like this.
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