Sep 13
Holograms occupy a strange place in our visual culture. Encountering a genuinely innovative holographic image can elicit wonder and joy, yet the technology has struggled to transcend election night gimmicks and Tupac exploitation
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Aug 21
Heist movies like Ocean’s Twelve and Entrapment often feature the now-cliché laser-filled room that requires a limber thief to skillfully navigate the beams lest they trigger an alarm. And as old hat as that’s become, it would admittedly still be pretty fun to try it in real life—so the folks at Nerdworking built one for anyone to give it their best shot at the designer’s HQ in Istanbul.
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Aug 15
When it comes to high-speed photography—and we’re talking about freezing explosions and other occurrences that are over in just thousandths of a second—something known as film-based streak photography has always been the go-to technology. But as film continues its slow death, a company called MetroLaser has come up with a digital alternative that can freeze objects moving at almost 7,500 miles per hour, which is roughly ten times the speed of sound.
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Aug 14
Fighting cancer is getting very 22nd century with the introduction of a new technique from researchers at the University of Georgia. The science of it gets a little bit complicated, but suffice it to say it’s pretty futuristic. Lasers and nanoparticles are involved.
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Aug 13
See that tiny green pinprick of light? That’s a speck of diamond dust trapped in the grip of a laser beam. And with its help, researchers hope to better understand the border-world between macro and quantum physics.
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Aug 08
As lasers go, this pointer won’t do much damage outside of maybe burning a few retinas if pointed in the wrong direction. However, if you’re a supervillain presenting your plans for world domination to a panel of evil venture capitalists (redundant, we know) this shark with a frickin’ laser pointer is the only way to go.
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Aug 07
Step one in any project involving genetic modification is to get the genes you want into the cells you want changed. Traditionally, this meant shooting microscopic DNA-coated bullets at the cells and hoping the DNA got inside without blowing the cells to smithereens. It sounds messy, and it is. Now, researchers in South Korea have devised a super-precise method for inserting DNA into cells, and it’s powered by lasers.
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Aug 06
One of the greatest pleasures of traveling by airplane is the fact that you can get to a location that would take days to get to by car or boat just mere hours, but something no one ever enjoys is the fact that planes tend to experience turbulence from time to time. Some turbulence could be minor, while others may result in your aircraft dropping a few hundred feet. That may be a thing of the past if a new turbulence-detection system is implemented into future aircrafts.
The DLR German Aerospace Center developed what’s currently called the DELICAT, which is a laser-based turbulence-detection system that can help detect clear-air turbulence by shooting short-wave ultraviolet lasers in front of the aircraft. The results of the lasers blasts are then analyzed in order to measure and detect any possible clear-air turbulence.
Hopefully the sooner the DELICAT can be implemented into aircrafts, the sooner we’ll all be able to enjoy your flights without having our stomachs feel like they’re being ripped out from out bodies due to an unforeseen pocket of turbulence.
Planes Equipped With Lasers Help In Detection Of Turbulence original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Aug 06
Rough weather caused by clouds and storms is easy for pilots and ground crews to spot and avoid when planning a flight route. But even perfectly clear skies can be full of invisible pockets of CAT—or clear-air turbulence—that are now easier to spot and predict thanks to a European laser-based detection system known as DELICAT.
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Aug 01
I can’t stop watching this guy burn through different materials with a preposterously intense laser that he built into a Zippo case. Metal, plastic, wood, rubber—these are no match for the laser lighter. Uhh, this is dangerous.
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