You likely can't. The reason being the patents for the technology are owned by patent trolls who refuse to let them be used.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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But despite Myhrvold’s enthusiasm, the Photonic Fence hasn’t been all that easy to actually build. It’s taken years of development to figure out how to continuously track and identify a specific type of insect and then dispatch it safely and efficiently. For instance, for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; I was assured that when it’s market-ready, the laser they deploy will not potentially blind human passersby. And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
You mean the patent on an item where they haven't figured out how to make it work yet without blinding its users? Yeah, it's definitely patent trolls and not user safety /s
Pulled it out of their ass. There aren't patents for mosquito lasers or what have you. The idea is just moronic. It is a fun engineering challenge but ultimately doesn't transfer to the real world. You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained. It has a direct competitor that works 100x better in the form of pesticide / poisons. Also a mosquito net works wonders, is scalable, cheap and efficient.
The technology has existed for well over a decade now.
You cannot scale it. It is dangerous. It is expensive to keep running / maintained.
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for the demonstration, I had to wear protective goggles since that type of laser is not safe for your eyes; And no one has yet worked out how to make the device cheap enough to be useful in the places it is most needed, places where most people’s mosquito-defense system consists of sleeping under nets every night.
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The Gates Foundation has something like this 20 years ago. It used the sounds of wing beats to find and identify gender and species.
It is unclear why nothing came of it. I look it up every few years....
Probably haven't solved the issue of friendly fire, i.e. potentially blinding users.
The real story is how easy it is for bullshit to go viral.
I don't doubt a laser could fry a mosquito; but could a mosquito actually be seen on radar? I would think LIDAR would be better at detecting such a small thing, and even then...
Astronomers track centimeter-sized rocks up in space. Tracking a mosquito in the same room is not an issue. The rest of the "invention" is the problem.
Doubt anything like that id available for sale. He took the radar from a car, probably needed some serious tweaking to get it to track smaller objects and ignore larger ones.
If you have any military connections, get your hands on a AN/APG-81 from an F-35 and cook all the mosquitos in the room. Get any pets or food out first, of course.
Yeah, I have my doubts. Cool in concept, but getting a radar that is that sensitive and able to track quick movements seems difficult.
It looks like it's just using an SR04 ultrasonic sensor too which isn't even that precise.
Oh damn I had an idea of doing this just recently. Turned out to be a huge hassle for someone without experience and also dangerous to have a laser that can burn flying mosquitoes ready to potentially burn your eyes out or house down.
Build it in a fire-brick tunnel enclosure, with slow release CO2 , or IR light attractant.
Would they be dangerous to mount them on sharks ? asking for a friend.
7 years in evil medical school and all you get are some crummy sea bass...
You need more capital. One ~~million~~... billion dollars oughta do it.