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I saw a method just over a decade ago that looked promising. It uses cheap lasers (in this case from a used laser printer they bought on e-bay) and is capable of targeting female mosquitoes specifically by the frequency of their wing-beat, leaving the male mosquitoes and all other insects unharmed.Bad idea. Nobody can see all the consequences of this.
I notice, too, that this is being done where mosquitoes are an inconvenient nuisance, Florida, and not Africa where they're the most dangerous killers.
Could this laser zap malaria?
Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like malaria. And just as that idea sinks in, he rolls out a live demo of a new, mosquito-zapping gizmo you have to see to believe.
www.ted.com