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Carving the New MacBooks with Lasers

Apple is introducing a new way to make laptops with the new MacBook 2008 line-up. Previously, manufacturers—including Apple—would add layers to form a body, welding each other to give the laptop rigidity. Now, they have changed the whole game, using lasers and piercing to create the new MacBook bodies from solid blocks of aluminum.


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Tags: new macbooks - lasers
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The Modern Android Cybernaut - Robot, Lasers & Citizen Kane

2nd in a series of films created in the mysterious superterranean lair of the Robotmakers. Original music and film. Questions left unanswered.


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Tags: citizen kane - android - lasers - robot
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Lasers and Waterjets invlolved with Apple's Brick Project?

Rumors are buzzing that Apple has been working on a revolutionary manufacturing process involving lasers and waterjets and solid blocks of aluminum for the upcoming MacBooks. The contention is that the rumored "Brick" product actually refers not to a product itself, but the manufacturing method for the MacBooks


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Tags: brick project - lasers - apple
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Boeing’s Missile Defense Plan: Robots, Mirrors & Lasers!

Ballistic missile defense via airplanes mounted with lasers may seem straight out of science fiction, but add a fleet of UAVs with mirrors to increase the laser's range, and military insiders say the system might just work.


NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens

Nine Inch Nails have pulled out all the stops for their high-tech new tour, creating a groundbreaking, fully interactive visual display that is as much a part of the show as the band's instruments. Reviews have called it everything from a "vision of splendor" to "the pinnacle of video art."


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Tags: leds - lasers - stealth - screens
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NIN Dazzles With Lasers, LEDs and Stealth Screens

A vast wall of swirling static dances appears on a giant screen as Trent Reznor and his band launch into their song, "Only."


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Tags: leds - lasers - stealth - screens
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Lasers That Put Voices In Your Head?

A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon from 1998 has revealed an investigation into using laser beams for a few intriguing potential methods of non-lethal torture.


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Tags: voices in your head - lasers
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'World's fastest WiFi' uses 'lasers'

Their network beams data at an amazing 1.2Tbps!! That is all.


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Tags: lasers - wifi
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Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space

New experiments using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle extend the range of quantum cryptography, an advanced method of communicating in unbreakable code. Finding a way to keep snoops from tapping into other people's information is a challenge that has gone to the subatomic level. First proposed in 1984, quantum cryptography (QC) promises to send


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Tags: lasers - send messages
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Forget Cameras, Radiohead Make Videos with Lasers!

Last week MrFrost let us know Radiohead shot a camera-less video. Here it is..if you were like me and wondered what it would look like to make a video using a hell of a lot of lasers and structured light.


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