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While a laser-guided mosquito defense system obviously sounds awesome, the GPU contributes a particularly incredible function to IV's Photonic Fence. The mosquito defense system not only distinguishes between different types of insects so that it can determine which pests to blast, but it also identifies the mosquitoes that carry malaria. Once the GPU recognizes a carrier, the pest defense, uh, fence cripples the vermin by blasting off its wings.
Malaria poses the most significant risk to human life in developing nations, particularly in Africa, where the disease afflicts hundreds of millions of people every year. But, the U.S. isn't exactly immune to mosquito-borne diseases. Various areas just endured a particularly miserable mosquito season, complete with Dengue fever, so hopefully some tech heavy-hitters (Gates, paging Mr. Gates) are in attendance this week in San Jose.
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentslillith2bSep 24th 2010 11:31AM
Sounds good to me! Where can I get one?
al schraderSep 24th 2010 3:45PM
This thing is extremely dangerous. Any laser with enough mili-watts to zap an insect, will zap your corneas & retinas causing unreversible blindness. Lasers can reflect off of rain drops, etc.....Alfred-
musomesaSep 24th 2010 11:41AM
That mozzy must have been astonished!
lasvegasguy333Sep 24th 2010 11:58AM
Maybe they can make one that works on Republicans !!!
grs5001Sep 24th 2010 1:05PM
@(Unverified) You obviously have no idea. I'm sure there would be one for the democrats, they have about the same size brain.
KSep 27th 2010 8:01AM
@(Unverified) And liberals.
piajwSep 24th 2010 3:11PM
Take your meds.
Bret StosselSep 25th 2010 4:21AM
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rickSep 24th 2010 12:09PM
Neat! I want one!
africaadventurerSep 24th 2010 12:27PM
This sounds great. But in an area (like East Africa) that has no potable water and little energy infrastructure, how can this be implemented and maintained?
Obviously by massive amounts of money from the Western and Arabic countries. Is there the political will to do that?
mikeSep 24th 2010 4:05PM
@(Unverified) Don't let these African nations fool you. They have more money than God. Between the gold, diamonds and oil they could pay for all of their own stuff. Massive corruption and civil wars take it all.
carlgcraverSep 24th 2010 12:30PM
There is an article in "Make:" magazine edition 23 that explains the whole process and how he made it.
BTW: Bill Gates funded the project.
FranSep 24th 2010 12:41PM
Try adding Listerine to water in a spray bottle. Works like a charm, just spray around the area, and way cheaper. I live in Florida and we have a lot of mosquitos.
BonbonSep 24th 2010 12:45PM
Next we'll be hearing from PETA and how cruel this is to mosquitoes.
satcom1Sep 24th 2010 7:25PM
@(Unverified) Maybe we could use it on them!!!!!
chypherSep 25th 2010 4:03AM
lol
Nan E. PuckettSep 24th 2010 12:56PM
Aww, what a novel idea--and I'm sure those 3rd-world countries will embrace it as long as WE pay for it! And while millions, the majority children, die from malaria since the banning of DDT by the oh-so helpful EPA, we can just continue to spend 1000's of tax dollars for $10 mosquito nets that we've sent by the 1000's to those countries, only to have the people refuse to use them since the nets only add to the heat & humidity while sleeping. DDT was the victim of good ole Rachel Carson's unscientific 'Silent Spring' book; it has never been proven dangerous but it's banning has been responsible for a disastrous tsunami of disease & death...add to that the resurgence of bedbugs, with DDT being the ONLY tried & true method of controlling them. It's also CHEAP which probably makes it off-limits to politicians who never met anything that required milking the taxpayer that they didn't like. Don'tcha just LOVE how the environmental idiots, along with their scumbag politicos, cause death, destruction & misery?!
gentrygary9Sep 25th 2010 2:23PM
@(Unverified) You are an idiot. DDT has been proven to have been extremely harmful to many forms of life i e does the bald eagle eggs come to memory? Spouting off mistruths like this doesn't do anything but ignore the obvious. If we can spend trillions on wars that have not brought us anything back but dead and wounded soldiers, lost treasure, and ill will around the world we can surely find a way to implement something like this for us and maybe some of the poorer parts of the world? where's the humanity?
FEsrigoHLSep 24th 2010 4:04PM
@(Unverified) NOT TRUE. It has been proved that DDT is Horrendously harmful.
paul loucksSep 24th 2010 8:01PM
@(Unverified) Tell that to an Inuit in Barrows, Alaska, whose child is born deformed because of mercury in the fish. Its a small world. Go ahead spray!!! 10,000 spiders per acre die with the mosquitos. Guess who breeds faster.