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Laser Beams Deflected Off of Nothing but Air for First Time Ever in Breakthrough Patent Pending Process - The Debrief::An international team of scientists report that they have successfully used acoustics to deflect laser beams in an engineering first.

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[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great points, but you know how things go. Proof of concept is a bloated laboratory implementation, then the tech gets smaller and more efficient over time. Next thing you know the sound is outside of human hearing range and the laser projector is fitted to a drone.

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More realisticly how things go, experimental research only works in lab conditions, clickbait article suggests it's coming next year, people make giant assumptions, people lose faith in science because the promised thing doesn't arrive

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lol probably, we are definitely more on track for cyberpunk or idiocracy than star trek post scarcity socialist utopia

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the article it's already using ultrasound.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Ultrasound at 140 dB which can still seriously damage hearing, you just don’t hear it happen.