Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Laser light motor from Japan

A new laser-powered motor has turned light into motion!! It was built in Japan and consists of a copper disc with a hole in the middle that when heated up by 534 nanometers of laser heat, begins to make the disc move, and when mounted on a spindle, it becomes in essence, a motor! This is the sweetest thing to ever be created and I have a feeling we'll be seeing them in cars in a matter of millenia.

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12972-laserpowered-motor-turns-light-into-motion.html

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