Take my money!

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    We’re in the midst of a mass exstinction that’s crippling insect populations which are a vital part of the foodchain.

    Anything that reduces the biomass of insects is probably a bad idea. A $1000 party toy that also reduces the biomass of insects is definitely a bad idea.

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      2 hours ago

      I was just reading to see how it’s able to only target mosquitoes 😞. I’ll pay the 1k if it could guarantee that, but just bug genocide is not ok with me.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 hour 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.