<story><title>Predict 3D position of flying bugs and pest to shoot down them with a laser</title><url>https://www.naro.go.jp/english/laboratory/nipp/press/3d/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>consp</author><text>Ah yes, the &amp;quot;star wars laser defense mosquito system&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27; as impractical then (early 00&amp;#x27;s origin) as it is now &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TGkPMZxWPpA&amp;amp;t=2s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TGkPMZxWPpA&amp;amp;t=2s&lt;/a&gt; (it&amp;#x27;s Dutch but you get it).&lt;p&gt;Unless you can get mm accuracy and perfect non-foe detection it&amp;#x27;s useless with the multi-watt lasers generally required.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TacticalCoder</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been dreaming about that to kill mosquitoes since I was a teenager. Then I wondered: &amp;quot;how to prevent firing the laser into someone&amp;#x27;s eye?&amp;quot; and my idea was to only shoot laser from 2 meters high and to only ever shoot towards the ceiling, never downwards, while having the ceiling having some kind of paint&amp;#x2F;material that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be reflecting the laser too much.  Make the paint&amp;#x2F;material all white to makes mosquito detection easier.&lt;p&gt;And it&amp;#x27;d be probabilistic: considering that, at some point, the mosquito is bound to fly at a height higher than 2 meters in your room.  And then boom, the laser.&lt;p&gt;A pipe dream but I &lt;i&gt;hate&lt;/i&gt; these little fuckers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Predict 3D position of flying bugs and pest to shoot down them with a laser</title><url>https://www.naro.go.jp/english/laboratory/nipp/press/3d/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>consp</author><text>Ah yes, the &amp;quot;star wars laser defense mosquito system&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27; as impractical then (early 00&amp;#x27;s origin) as it is now &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TGkPMZxWPpA&amp;amp;t=2s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TGkPMZxWPpA&amp;amp;t=2s&lt;/a&gt; (it&amp;#x27;s Dutch but you get it).&lt;p&gt;Unless you can get mm accuracy and perfect non-foe detection it&amp;#x27;s useless with the multi-watt lasers generally required.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>endymi0n</author><text>It is. And if you want to go Khaby Lame all the way on this issue: Just use a fan instead.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;14596273&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;14596273&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>