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This device uses a laser to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second — LiDAR-guided 'Photonmatrix'


But it isn't cheap, starting from nearly $500, and this developer has no prior crowdfunding history.

Jim Wong has set up an IndieGogo page for the “World's First Portable Mosquito Air Defense,” dubbed the Photonmatrix. Key attractions of the Photonmatrix are its LiDAR scanner combined with a galvanometer-directed laser that can seek and destroy mosquitoes at a rate of up to 30 pests per second. On the crowdfunding pages, Wong asserts that the Photonmatrix has been built with full consideration of safety for humans and pets, and that it “prioritizes safety as its core feature, it is safe enough and will not harm people, pets or even distant birds, etc.” Lots of medium/slow flying pests will be controlled by this device, but it isn’t going to be 100% against common houseflies, as they can go faster (over 1m/s).

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