Comment on Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy, video shows device in action — tiny device shoots down bugs like a personal air defense system, but costs $1,000

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While it uses a laser beam to strike down mosquitoes, it uses LiDAR, mmWave radar, and an AI vision module to detect targets between 2mm and 20 mm in size moving at or below 3.3 feet per second (1 meter per second).

  I remember reading about research on this topic, the noise mosquitoes make is very distinctive, and systems for targeting them exclusively can work by identifying it and triangulating its origin, but it sounds like this product does not work that way. Not sure whether the lidar/AI vision method is able to discriminate as well.

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