{"id":4820,"date":"2010-02-13T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2010-02-13T03:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T08:00:57","slug":"die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4820","title":{"rendered":"Die Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/02\/death-star-laser-zaps-mosqitoes-dead\/\">TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosqitoes Dead<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Myhrvold demonstrated a \u201cDeath Star\u201d laser gun designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight. The device was crafted from parts purchased on eBay by scientists at Myhrvold\u2019s Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/intellectualventureslab.com\/?p=653\">High Speed Videography of Mosquitoes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third video is the best one, showing the critters being smoked.  Literally.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED 2010: Death Star Laser Gun Zaps Mosqitoes Dead Myhrvold demonstrated a \u201cDeath Star\u201d laser gun designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight. The device was crafted from parts purchased on eBay by scientists at Myhrvold\u2019s Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4820\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}