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How long until someone figures out you can make a smaller version of this with high powered infrared lasers to burn out retinas instantly using face detection,
by deadbabe 2y ago
How long until someone figures out you can make a smaller version of this with high powered infrared lasers to burn out retinas instantly using face detection, in a way that no one even knows what’s happening? Just walk into an area, see nothing particularly interesting, then never see again.
- whimsicalism 2y agowell a lot sooner now that you made your comment
- ben_w 2y ago> How long until Minus a decade, if not more — I personally had (and then rejected) that specific idea as a world-building element in the novel I've still not finished writing. (I'm not sure when Robert Miles did an eye tracking laser turret, or even if I dreamed it, but if he did it, it was also ages ago now).
- snozolli 2y agoThis reminds me of the CHiPs episode "Bright Flashes", where robbers temporarily blind patrons and staff so that they can rob stores. It's from 1982, when lasers were the hot new thing and imaginations ran wild. To my knowledge, it never became a thing, because why would it? Similarly, why would you want to target an individual with an AI laser weapon to blind them? To kill them, sure, like the Israeli assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but not to blind them.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoDepending on the situation, a laser might be much easier to smuggle / prevent from attracting attention ? But I guess not meaningfully in practice : see the recent "exploding pagers" operation...
- ls612 2y agoBlinding lasers are prohibited by treaty similar to chemical weapons so probably not soon.