What will be the mosquito evolutionary response/outcome to this innovation?!
Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
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Re: Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
#22This is safety-critical software: one mistake will blind a person. > "Importantly, the device additionally uses millimeter-wave radar to scan its field of view for larger objects such as people and pets. If any of these are detected, its mosquito-zapping laser will not fire." I note the startup doesn't actually disclose the laser output power anywhere, or what regulatory class that power level falls in. It's federal…
They do in a YouTube video on their channel [0]. It’s 40 (!) watts. They also show it shooting indiscriminately at any small object, with an example where they feed it foam chips. [0]: https://youtu.be/Ta0f0oB4I-Q?si=WqlhTmVHVszXSjtU
That's more than enough to permanently blind someone with a partial reflection, i.e. you point this at an insect and there's a small polished-metal object somewhere behind it.
Re: Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
#23What will be the mosquito evolutionary response/outcome to this innovation?!
Mirrors.
Re: Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do in a YouTube video on their channel [0]. It’s 40 (!) watts. They also show it shooting indiscriminately at any small object, with an example where they feed it foam chips. [0]: https://youtu.be/Ta0f0oB4I-Q?si=WqlhTmVHVszXSjtU
That's more than enough to permanently blind someone with a partial reflection, i.e. you point this at an insect and there's a small polished-metal object somewhere behind it.
In parts of the world bieng able to eliminate mosquitos(other more deadly bugs) will outweigh a great deal of risk assosiated with lasers.
and there are things that can be done.
heat and motion detectors that disarm the system if people/pets are present fields of fire that are above 99.999 % of peoples eyes fields of fire very close to walls, where mosquitos alight, but it is almost impossible to get in the way for humans multiple laser turrets that indivualy dont have the power to hurt a human badly, but can zap a bug through co ordinated action.....perhaps set up outdoors with artificial breath and infra red bait traps to bring the mosquitos above a crowd. more robust systems to be used in agricultural contexts. this will be about comfort and protecting vulnerable populations, mosquitos/other bugs wont be going anywhere, chemical control has proven to cause ecological probelms worse than the bugs, and the attempts at useing biological methods is only a partial solution.
Re: Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's more than enough to permanently blind someone with a partial reflection, i.e. you point this at an insect and there's a small polished-metal object somewhere behind it.
In parts of the world bieng able to eliminate mosquitos(other more deadly bugs) will outweigh a great deal of risk assosiated with lasers. and there are things that can be done. heat and motion detectors that disarm the system if people/pets are present fields of fire that are above 99.999 % of peoples eyes fields of fire very close to walls, where mosquitos alight, but it is almost impossible to get in the way for h…
I’m not here to sell my own startup, but there are other ways to kill mosquitoes than a 40 watts laser that could make someone blind from a secondary reflection (out of the mmWave radar detection range)
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#26What I really want is an iOS app that helps me locate insects in a room. Start video feed, analyze pixels for a small object flying around and draw a green box around each while flying and a red box once it lands somewhere. I can take care of the rest.
wont your eyes be infinitely better than a phone camera for this?
Re: Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
#27What I really want is an iOS app that helps me locate insects in a room. Start video feed, analyze pixels for a small object flying around and draw a green box around each while flying and a red box once it lands somewhere. I can take care of the rest.
My dogs do this for me, minus the green box bit. They hear bugs, locate them, and focus on them until I do the rest, then they try to eat the remains.
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#28What I really want is an iOS app that helps me locate insects in a room. Start video feed, analyze pixels for a small object flying around and draw a green box around each while flying and a red box once it lands somewhere. I can take care of the rest.
wont your eyes be infinitely better than a phone camera for this?
Maybe yours are today, but maybe they won't be, tomorrow.
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#29Re: Laser-wielding device is like an anti-aircraft system for mosquitoes
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
In parts of the world bieng able to eliminate mosquitos(other more deadly bugs) will outweigh a great deal of risk assosiated with lasers. and there are things that can be done. heat and motion detectors that disarm the system if people/pets are present fields of fire that are above 99.999 % of peoples eyes fields of fire very close to walls, where mosquitos alight, but it is almost impossible to get in the way for h…
I’m not here to sell my own startup, but there are other ways to kill mosquitoes than a 40 watts laser that could make someone blind from a secondary reflection (out of the mmWave radar detection range)
I think that by "secondary reflection" you are perhaps refering to a direct single reflection, rather than a double bank?
But in any case it is very very unlikely that there will anything availible outside of a high caliber optics lab that can reflect cohearant laser beams in such a way as to retain a dangerous power level.
The 40 watt laser is needed in order to provide a kill shot in in a small target in millisecond pulse, that only has to penetrate a fraction of a millimeter, and would be unlikely to penetrate a full cm into a human eye and do permanent damage even with a direct hit, not that anyone is going to advocate for useing lasers for eye surgery....oh wait