BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as metamaterials to high-flying realms ranging from satellite communications to drone-sized… Read More
Engineers at the University of Washington have demonstrated that it’s possible to charge up your smartphone using laser beams. Perhaps the deeper question is, why? If laser charging can be… Read More
The company formerly known as LaserMotive is coming out of stealth mode with a new name — PowerLight Technologies — and a sharper focus on beaming power over fiber-optic cables. “The company… Read More
LaserMotive, a stealthy pioneer in laser-based power transmission that’s based in Kent, Wash., has raised more than $1.5 million in an equity offering, according to documents filed today with the… Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard says it had to cut a helicopter training mission short on Monday night after the airborne crew was targeted by someone with a laser near Port Angeles,… Read More
It’s not laser-beams-mounted-on-sharks cool, but it’s still fairly cool. Boeing unveiled this video of its Compact Laser Weapons System yesterday. The laser beam was developed to concentrate large amounts of… Read More