In 1987, she performed the world's first excimer laser treatment, a procedure that eliminates or reduces the need for contact lenses.
This advance in the realm of medicine comes, oddly enough, from the digital world of fiber optics and laser printers, courtesy of engineers and scientists at Xerox Corp.
Later Bond villains, as part of their cat-stroking, laser-pointing, world-destroying repertoire, also had nuclear ambitions.
Even though Thingiverse is more popular in the 3D printing world, it offers a number of laser cutting and laser engraving projects.
Bell Labs created building blocks of the modern world--the transistor, Unix, laser breakthroughs, cellular telephony.
The Acer K750 is the world's first 1080p projector equipped with a hybrid laser-LED light technology, improving color saturation by 55% to deliver outstanding, energy efficient projection.
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The technologies that run the world today (like the Internet, the computer and the laser) are not used in the way intended by those who invented them.
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.
ENGADGET: Samsung partners with Mobeam to offer scannable bar codes on the Galaxy S 4
Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world's top experts on the science of cholesterol, says a laser-like focus on LDL-lowering has been one reason deaths from cardiovascular disease are dropping.
Or there is the apocalyptic version, where a world has been bombed back into the Stone Age -- and somehow still has laser weapons.
Rapid Prototyping technologies like 3D printers, laser cutters, and shared workspaces like TechShop are democratizing innovation in the physical world of atoms.
Laser pen attacks on aircraft seem to be on the rise in many places around the world.
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