There's some noise on the web about the laser guided mosquito killer that was showed at TED last week.

I find the story behind its invention, by Intellectual Ventures Lab, even more compelling.

Nathan Myhrvold, formerly of Microsoft, created the mosquito killer from parts he bought on Ebay. He used parts from printers, digital cameras and projectors to create a new device that could eventually change the course of Malaria forever.

Even with such basic ingredients, the device can precisely identify a female mosquito from other mosquitoes or other insects. It will only kill the females as they are the ones that bite. Why save the males? Simply because there's no point wasting energy on them. It can kill 50 to 100 mosquitoes a second.

There's that Gutter Technology at play again.

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