BEAM WEAPON FOR BAD BUGS
How to make a Mosquito Defense Shield.
I have a nice gig: I get paid to invent ways to use lasers, optics, and computers to destroy mosquitoes. I work at Intellectual Ventures Lab, which is part of Intellectual Ventures, founded in 2000 by Microsoft’s former chief technology officer, Nathan Myhrvold. At the lab, which is in Bellevue, Wash., we turn ideas into proof-of-concept inventions, such as a deep-brain surgery tool, a system to weaken hurricanes, and a super-thermos to transport vaccines.
In 2007, Bill Gates (who co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife and father) asked us to think differently about how to wipe out malaria. Mosquitoes are a big problem in many parts of the world, ...
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