An American company is looking to take on unwanted bugs with what it calls the\u00a0Photonic Fence.<\/p>\n
Intellectual Ventures Lab<\/strong><\/a> has been working on the device since 2009, according to a report by Wired<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The device is currently undergoing its first real-world test with the\u00a0US Department of Agriculture, and will be sold to farmers if it works as intended.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Photonic Fence uses cameras and other optic devices to scan for bugs within 100m, analysing a target’s form, velocity, and wing beat to recognise which creature it is.<\/p>\n Certain pests can be placed on a “kill list”, and when identified will be shot with a laser. The target is dead within 25 milliseconds.<\/p>\n The company said the device can kill 20 insects per second, covering an area of 30m wide by 3m high.<\/p>\n An American company is looking to take on unwanted bugs with what it calls the\u00a0Photonic Fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":217014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[44110,44112],"class_list":["post-217012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-intellectual-ventures-lab","tag-photonic-fence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217028,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217012\/revisions\/217028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0The Museum of Failure<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"