Comment More information... (Score 2) 200
A more complete/informative article. Son says TV was new. Villagers say problems persist.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
Comment Re:A quick peek at the picutres says a lot (Score 1) 386
Er... The label on the side of the PS reads '13.65V @20.5 Amps'. The battery leads go into the supply and the part number is a Google P/N. I don't think this is a standard power supply.
Comment Re:Bleeped (Score 1) 500
One Mr. Wizard that sticks in my mind was a 'Don't Try This at Home' episode where he filled one of those old pump bug sprayers with kerosene (or was it gasoline?) and demonstrated what a nice blowtorch you could make with household utensils. Those were the days!
New Laser System Targets Mosquitoes 354
An anonymous reader writes "In the Cold War the so-called 'Star Wars defense system' proposed using lasers to destroy incoming Soviet missiles. In a 2007 brainstorming session aimed at combating malaria, Dr. Lowell Wood, the architect of that system, proposed modifying his original idea to kill mosquitoes. The cover of today's Wall Street Journal contains an article that highlights this initiative as well as a few others, like using a giant flashlight to disrupt mosquitoes' vision and using the insects to vaccinate, in the war against malaria. The system is intelligent enough to avoid noncombatants like humans and butterflies and can even tell the difference between females, the blood-drinkers, and males. My favorite quote: 'We'd be delighted if we destabilize the human-mosquito balance of power.'"
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