Tag: Lasers
Pointing lasers at planes might sound like a dumb prank, but it’s an arrestable offense. Let the story of 36-year-old Frank Egan be a cautionary tale to anyone considering it: From inside the third-story apartment where he lives with his mom, Egan pointed his Laser 303 at aircrafts on the La Guardia Airport runway on […]
The beloved 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk behind the Metropolitan Museum is undergoing a laser cleaning. Since its arrival in New York in 1880, the 69-foot-statue has collected quite a bit of dirt. It’s become difficult to see the many intricate hieroglyphs the statue is carved with. The Central Park Conservancy gave $500,000 to the cleaning project. In case you […]
So, it’s not quite as dramatic as lasers vs. balloons, but it’s enough to wake you up on this gloomy Monday morning. Digital artist Memo Akten developed an openFrameworks-based method to control a laser projector with vector drawings, then took the project one step further, tracking the edges of real objects, then projecting lasers onto […]
Who will win? Spoiler alert: It’s the laser. The laser wins, obviously. Via. […]
Here’s the latest spectacle of wonders from London-based creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast. Commissioned by STRP Biennale in Eindhoven, Forest is a 450-square-meter interactive musical laser installation comprised of over 150 rod-and-laser “trees.” Visitors are encouraged to frolic through the massive space and strum and shake the trees, creating different patterns of light and sound. Each […]
We already knew that the U.S. Office of Naval Research has been hard at work building laser guns. Now, it’s come to light that the office would like to begin equipping Marine humvees with the futuristic weapons, in hopes of keeping them better protected from drones. They’re offering a contract worth up to $400,000 for […]
