Professor Ominous hovers over his laser death-ray.

Lasers are the future of pretty much everything, from heating up food to war, but there’s one problem with focused beams of light.  Once they cut through something, they keep on going until they run out of steam or reach something they can’t damage.  Professor Douglas Stone and a team from Yale University have developed light-absorbing anti-laser technology.  It’s the world’s first device that can cancel a laser beam.

Unfortunately for pirates wanting to stop anti-pirate lasers with anti-lasers, the absorbed light gets radiated away as heat, so if someone wants to burn you up with a laser, the anti-laser will simply change that beam into an oven.  However, the ability to start and stop light beams may prove to be the next big break-through in computing technology, as it allows optical switches to move from the realm of theory into the world of reality.

Can you imagine a world in which computers can transfer information at light speed?  Better yet, can you imagine a world in which the blue screen of death is actually fatal because your computer tower starts shooting laser blasts everywhere?  I sure can, and I think I like it!

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