awesome stuff NY TImes. You just wrote an article about something every 4 year old in India (and every other tropical country) is well aware of
A Low-Tech Mosquito Deterrent
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#52When I lived in Africa for 2 years we always had a oscillating fan going near our beds. Sometimes I would wake up and hear no fan. I knew the power had gone out and sure enough the mosquitoes would come attack.
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#53Spend a summer up in the Yukon or Alaska if you want to see solid walls of ravenous mosquitoes. I get bitten while riding my bike, bitten while my arm is out of the car window driving at 30km/h, and bitten through jeans. 100% DEET (you can get it in Alaska) does the trick for about 30 minutes before you have to re-apply - and it's nasty stuff. This past weekend I was camping at a music festival and slapped my arm cas…
Wow, this is not something I knew about Alaska. I did a simple google image search for 'Alaska mosquitoes' and that is plain scary.
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#54Didn't someone come up with a blend of things (poison and flower scents) that claimed to eradicate every mosquito in a X mile radius? Whatever happened of that? Why haven't we been able to make something that'll attract large amounts of them and kill them?
It was fruit juice and boric acid.. not sure what came of it.
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#55awesome stuff NY TImes. You just wrote an article about something every 4 year old in India (and every other tropical country) is well aware of
4 year olds from India are not the target audience of the New York Times. It's a good thing when something known to one culture is shared with another.
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#56Personally I'd love to have an auto-aiming laser that detects and fries any nearby mosquito. The poor critters wouldn't stand a chance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser Oddly enough, Intellectual Ventures invented this.
They actually invented something? I thought all they did was sue people.
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#57Didn't someone come up with a blend of things (poison and flower scents) that claimed to eradicate every mosquito in a X mile radius? Whatever happened of that? Why haven't we been able to make something that'll attract large amounts of them and kill them?
It was fruit juice and boric acid.. not sure what came of it. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/health/27mosquito.html
Yep, that's the one! Hmm, I might give it a shot.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser Oddly enough, Intellectual Ventures invented this.
Somebody tell Nathan Myhrvold so he can come in and sue everybody in this thread for reading about his intellectual property.
I've emailed three times, and have called leaving numerous voicemails asking to license this technology. Not once have I ever been called or emailed back.
#PatentTrolls
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've thought about that, but mosquito's are small and hard to detect. You'd need quite a high resolution camera (or realistically two, to compensate for the parallax between the camera and the laser) combined with some serious software to spot mosquitos at the other end of the room.
IV did develop this... http://intellectualventureslab.com/?page_id=563
MAKE did an article on this as well: http://makezine.com/2010/08/30/make-23-how-to-shoot-mosquito...
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#60I always thought using fans to repel mosquitoes was common knowledge, but thinking back it was a trip to China where I learned about it. In fact, it was the same trip where I discovered the plug-in hormone packs AND the electric fly swatters. The rest of the world, where mosquitoes carry disease and there aren't spraying programs, seems to have figured out how to repel the bugs better than we have, and for lower cost.
I'm lucky enough to have an air conditioner that points right at my bed. While the main purpose is to keep cool, I haven't been bitten in bed this summer (unlike in the spring when the aircon was off).