Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's Ex, get involved in researching laser technology, to stop malaria.
Mosquitoes, is the biggest issue facing the most severe for humans, how humans continue to fight the decades that can infect the blood of animals until we are stricken with diseases like malaria. and this mostly occurred in the countries of the third grade who have a poor health environment coupled with warm temperatures and so relatively many parts of the world among countries doing a variety of ways to combat and prevent this disease in every year nya.
Solutions exist today to kill mosquitoes is by using insecticides and repellants (anti mosquito) that are toxic, expensive, and there may not be able to work at the mosquito which already has a high resistance to chemicals. While dengue fever or malaria vaccine safer, but it is still very expensive and can only prevent one type of disease course. So the Researchers in Seattle have been conducting research to answer the "Star Wars"-style problems in the fight against mosquitoes.
Star Wars program was set up to automatically shoot a nuclear missile with laser technology.Now the latest program they have a new challenge, namely to shoot a smaller object is to kill mosquitoes by using a laser pulse is turned off. The Researchers, led by Jordin Kare, an astrophysicist with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has developed a laser technology that could "tag" mosquitoes with a pulse of light at a distance of 100 feet. Laser technology found in today is still a non-lethal, but the next version of course this will turn off this device called a weapon of mass destruction mosquito (WMMD).
Kare said, "we are very happy if we could stabilize the relationship between human-mosquito to be more balanced."
This mosquito killer laser peralatanya components obtained from eBay. With donors from Bill Gates, United Nations, UK and several non-profits such as Malaria, will of course continue to develop this research.
Szabolcs Marka, a researcher from Columbia University who specializes on black holes has also been active in this research, by making the light that can blind mosquitoes.
There are many other methods such as Myriad method using microwave technology, producing rancidity, blood poisoning and other weaponry that utilizes sight, smell and the heat has been in test in the lab is worldwide. Some also are designed specifically to make the bacteria to kill all species of mosquitoes, other genetically designed to kill mosquitoes that have superior resistance to malaria, which will kill the host factors penyakin malaria is carried by mosquitoes.
A creative researchers from Japan only made the mosquitoes become an engine "flying syringes" that will bring healing to the community vaccine. However, the most highly paid attention today is the mosquito killer laser technology is that in dreams by Lowell Wood. Mr.Wood worked with Edward Teller, to make the hydrogen bomb and later liked this method, a la Star Wars. Where is the Star Wars program is designed for national defense, Mr.. Wood believes the same method will be the basis for mosquito defense.
Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft Corp.. executive and owner of Intellectual Ventures LLC, has helped fund and assistance to engage in the development of this technology with the help of his old boss Bill Gates. Dr. Wood has created a team which included Dr. Kare, a few Star Wars scientist, and entomologist with a Ph.D. in mosquito behavior, and other expert.
Through implementation of this technology is still the laser idea perimeter defense will protect a village / area due to the laser that is designed with great force. The strength of the laser harslah strong and powerful enough to kill mosquitoes, but weak to kill organisms that many of the other insect butterfly butterflies. Mr. said. Myhrvold, "With this technology you can kill millions of mosquitoes in one night, tampa must kill other insects."
Implementation is currently using Dell computer as a "brain" of the mosquito killer. This uses the Maglite flashlight to mengilluminasi the mosquitoes, creating a silhouette on the backdrop.The camera will find this silhouette and menembakanya with lasers. A collection of colonies of Anopheles stephensi, one of which always carry malaria mosquito, has become a test subject on this new weapon.
Mosquitoes exposed to the target, not only females only, males also
Some tests show good results, with a total number of mosquitoes that were killed in an efficient, which left the carcass of a dead mosquitoes on the ground. Laser was even able to identify based on sound mosquito wings, because blood-sucking female mosquito has a special sound will be a very important target. where the female mosquito will become the main target by the laser, the men left without both a relationship with a female mosquito. Mr. Myhrvold says, "It would be wise if we just kill, the women, not men."
However, he added that humans might be better if the mosquito in the "kill everything."
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