Re: [NTLK] SER-001: The future...

From: Ben Wells (headwerkx_at_iprimus.com.au)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 07:51:08 EST


>
>> You can amp. the IrDA??? Will I be able to slice bread from across
>> the kitchen? :-D
>
> There's a modification -- but how about this instead: a Newton that
> can generate a light saber beam! Yeah, no Palm user will be able to
> diss you when you have this (well, they might -- but they'd only do it

Heh heh, I'd be in on that. Technically it's possible... infrared light
is just heat energy. Get enough of it focussed tightly and you'll be
burnin' holes through bank safes in no time. Of course, expect battery
life to be worse than when using a PC card modem ;-)

Perhaps we need some kind of organic laser?

Ben.
Master of the smokin' Newton.
"Anyone smell that?"

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