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UAV Helicopter Flies 12 Hours Charged By Laser

Posted by timothy on from the shine-on-harvest-moon dept.

garymortimer writes "LaserMotive (who last year won $900,000 in the NASA Power Beaming Challenge, one of the levels of the 'Space Elevator Games') have teamed up with Germany's Ascending Technologies to create an indoor flight record for electrically powered multicopters. The flight took place at the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo, WA. LaserMotive is a Seattle-based company developing laser power beaming systems to transmit electricity without wires, for applications where wires are either cost prohibitive or physically impractical."

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  1. The ultimate weapon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Giant robots powered by laser via solar satellites. That's it folks, that's the next generation of military tech.

    1. Re:The ultimate weapon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You need the robot to trash mirrored bunkers.

  2. Re:The unstoppable weapon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You forgot about the shark, there has to be a shark involved for this to really work.

  3. Re:just what the tax payer needed by EdIII · · Score: 2, Funny

    You did not read the article then. Surprising, for a Slashdotter, I know.

    If you had bothered to read the article, the Kingfisher LX-1 was designed for remote surveillance over the oceans. More impressively, power transfer is accomplished with the lasers attached to the heads of sharks. Now, if that is not an outside application, I don't know what it is........

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  4. This is illegal by srussia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man Sentenced For Pointing Laser At Helicopter

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    Set your phasers on "funky"!
  5. Clarification needed! by Paradyme · · Score: 4, Funny

    I understand the concept behind this, but how do they keep the sharks pointed at the helicopter?

    1. Re:Clarification needed! by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

      I understand the concept behind this, but how do they keep the sharks pointed at the helicopter?

      Look, chum.

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  6. Re:The unstoppable weapon by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot about the shark, there has to be a shark involved for this to really work.

    There's only a shark involved when it's been jumped.

    There will be plenty of sharks about after the first patent infringement suit gets filed.

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  7. Re:The unstoppable weapon by Shark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay... Now I'm involved, you happy?

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    Mind the frickin' laser...