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Shooting Mosquitoes With Laser Beams

I’m easily aroused amused. Find below a slow-motion snuff video that shows an unsuspecting mosquito being zapped by a laser beam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYXPqrXZ1eU

It seems that the mosquito didn’t just wander into the path of the laser, it was being targeted. In 2007, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation tasked a company called Intellectual Ventures to think up new technologies to fight malaria. One of their creations was the Photonic Fence, a defense system that could identify a mosquito by how fast its wings are beating, and then shoot it out of the sky.

[via +Mike Breytenbach]

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