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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on November 24, 2005, 05:29:40 pm

Title: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Nemesis on November 24, 2005, 05:29:40 pm
Link to full article (http://news.com.com/Wi-Fi+mosquito+killer+coming+to+a+porch+near+you/2100-11395_3-5961535.html)

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Now AmBio, as the company is commonly called, is upping the ante with a "smart" mosquito net, or computerized defense system, to serve the corporate and public health sectors. By the first quarter of 2006, AmBio executives hope to have finalized sophisticated software to control a network of magnets--forming a kind of wide-scale fence--which will be able to communicate with a central network through wireless 802.11b technology.

That way, the system will be able to efficiently ward off bugs from golf courses and resorts, or even help mitigate cases of malaria in third world countries, according to Hosea.

"We got the idea from institutions that were jury-rigging our technology to computer networks and mesh networks, with PC panels, to see how many mosquitoes they'd caught or how much propane they had left...It's unbelievable the lengths people will go to, to get rid of mosquitoes," said Hosea, a former National Science Foundation Fellow in artificial intelligence.
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: 762_XC on November 24, 2005, 09:36:03 pm
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzztt *SHWOOOSH*
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Bonk on November 24, 2005, 10:41:46 pm
I have seen such CO2 traps aggravate black fly and mosquito problems. I don't trust them one bit.

I like bats, moths, dragon flies and fish fry; proven technology.
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: 762_XC on November 24, 2005, 10:56:50 pm
I like surface to air missiles.

(http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/p25.jpg)
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Bonk on November 25, 2005, 12:40:57 am
Oi, you must get pretty big mosquitos in your parts!  :o  ;D
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Stormbringer on November 25, 2005, 01:18:40 am
Asian tiger mosquitos and blackflies require an additional bait. The propane pwered mosquito magnet recommends the octinol cartridges for areas that have those pests. Somehow i think peoples problems with those pests result from failure to follow instructions.
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Nemesis on November 25, 2005, 04:55:03 pm
Quote from: 762_XC on November 24, 2005, 10:56:50 pm
I like surface to air missiles.

([url]http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/p25.jpg[/url])


We are talking about mosquitoes the insect not the WWII airplane (http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=&ex=00000192&sl=3205&pos=1).
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Just plain old Punisher on November 25, 2005, 05:58:29 pm
Shut up! By the time he figures it out I'll have sold him 2 dozen units!!! Sheesh!
Title: Re: Anti-mosquitoe shield on a city wide scale.
Post by: Nemesis on November 25, 2005, 06:07:31 pm
Quote from: Punisher NCC-2000 on November 25, 2005, 05:58:29 pm
Shut up! By the time he figures it out I'll have sold him 2 dozen units!!! Sheesh!

You should have offered me a percentage.