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Smart Optical Fibers Could Save Lives
Roland Piquepaille writes "Lasers are now commonly used for surgery. With them, you can recover a better sense of vision. Or a tumor inside your body can be eliminated. But these laser light beams, which are currently enclosed inside optical fibers, can harm you if they escape from their enclosures. But now, according to Technology Review, MIT researchers have designed smart optical fibers which can monitor their status while the laser is doing its magic inside you and shut it down if a fiber wall is about to break. So far, the technology is only working in labs, but it could be used for medical applications in a few years."
We need sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
Um ... by writing out the full form of that acronymn and not using it anywhere else in your posting, you effectively made your posting LONGER! A redundant acronym. Nice!
What ever happened to Sprint's fiber optic network FON? Remember FON cards that were all shiny and plus if you had them you could use 950's to make free calls for a while?
Development 8odels if y0u don't
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