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What happened to the promised mosquito killing laser? It's been twelve years.
by _tom_ 4y ago
What happened to the promised mosquito killing laser?
It's been twelve years.
- lnsru 4y agoMaking it human safe with light curtain drives cost and as someone already mentioned it is patented. So it’s an expensive product for riches with integrated patent troll lawsuit. Not good starting situation for development.
- mohaine 4y agoIt was patented by Intellectual Ventures so was probably never going to be a real product. When the patent expires maybe someone will touch it.
- PeterisP 4y agoIIRC it's nearly impossible to ensure that the laser (or its reflection from something!) never ever hits the eyes of people, and so it's not a viable product due to liability issues.
- danielheath 4y agoIt’s a prime example of unnecessary complexity and risk. You get comparable results from a box fan pointed at a wire screen (mosquitoes get trapped on the mesh by the airflow), but nobody writes breathless articles about a box fan.
- Stamp01 4y agoThat's not true. I wrote this breathless article about box fans expressly to prove you wrong. https://subcomplex.com/post/box-fans https://subcomplex.com/post/box-fans
- adrianN 4y agoYou can install a mosquito killing laser outdoors and have a large area of no mosquitos. How effective is a fan for that use case?
- hyperbovine 4y agoGiven that the laser is pure vaporware, I’d say it’s infinitely more effective.
- ron_87 4y agoabout mosquito https://github.com/Ildaron/Laser_control https://github.com/Ildaron/Laser_control
- mellavora 4y agoWell, you specified a large area of no mosquitos. So I imagine the laser and the box fan would have equivalent effectiveness.
- danielheath 4y agoI mean, one of them would at least get you fewer mosquitos - especially if run daily.
- brutusborn 4y agoVideo for skeptics like myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvI2aWZXPCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvI2aWZXPCE
- petesergeant 4y agoHad excellent results in bedrooms with a device like this[0] that's much smaller. Very much the same concept though. [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/ANINBO-Mosquito-Killer-Indoor-Insect/dp/B09SCWMR89/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/ANINBO-Mosquito-Killer-Indoor-Insec...
- euroderf 4y agoA system that zaps mosquitoes indoors (for example in the bedroom) is at least as valuable as one that zaps mosquitoes outdoors. Also easier & safer to implement. Activate it and close the door to the room, after clearing out pets. Let it run until it beeps. Re-enter toom. Sleep soundly without all the damned buzzing and biting.
- d21d3q 4y agoMuch safer would be to use directional speaker, which would "hit" mosquito with frequency that corresponds to wing length and damage it.