When we first heard of [Ildar Rakhmatulin’s] plan to use OpenCV on a Raspberry Pi to detect mosquitos and then zap them with a 1 watt laser, we thought it was sort of humorous. However, the paper ...
Mosquitos kill more people than any other creature in the world, and there's no shortage of potential tech solutions. One such solution comes from Bzigo, which markets a device that finds mosquitos in ...
At a 2010 TED expo, Nathan Myhrvold — former Microsoft CTO and current project lead of Intellectual Ventures — debuted a “photonic fence” that zaps disease-ridden mosquitoes to an early grave à la ...
When a mosquito is detected in this fashion, a second galvanometer -directed laser is instantaneously used to fatally zap the insect. It should be noted that mosquitoes won't be detected if they're ...
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Mosquitos kill more people than any other creature in the world, and there’s no shortage of potential tech solutions. One such solution comes from Bzigo, which markets a device that finds mosquitos in ...