Contraption to shoot mosquitos with laser beams

I love that Nathan Myhrvold thought up this idea for use in Sub-Saharan Africa to zap malarial mosquitoes, an area that does not have a great reputation for reliable electricity. This is a great example of technology solving a problem elegantly but being completely impractical for the purposes it was designed.

It’s a neat idea. Glad to see that it has some use.

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