Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have, for the first time, used a semiconductor laser to send and receive radio signals. The hybrid ...

Anything with a laser has undeniable hacker appeal, even if the laser’s task is as pedestrian as sending data over a fiber optic cable. [Shahriar] from [The Signal Path] must agree, and you ...

Electricity can be streamed wirelessly across a room through thin air, researchers have found. Scientists from Seoul, South Korea, have figured out how to transmit 400 milliwatts (mW) of electricity ...

Most of the time we feature hokey film footage in our Retrotechtacular series, but we think this hack is as cool today as it was fifty years ago. [Clint] wrote in to tell us about Operation Red Line.

Captured by a special camera, a laser beam invisible to the naked eye shoots across the dark expanse of the David Taylor Model Basin at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Md. Attendees at a ...

Scientists have demonstrated new laser systems for deep-space optical communication. Researchers report new results from the NASA Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration ...

What is believed to have been the first field demonstration of a laser-based, long-range, free-space power beaming system was successfully performed at the David Taylor Model Basin at the Naval ...