But while the proposed new legislation would cover phone tapping and mail interceptions, it conspicuously fails to deal with other, no less intrusive, forms of electronic surveillance such as long-distance microphones, laser devices and the placing of bugs.
Portable laser pointing devices are less expensive, more powerful, and more readily available than ever.
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The U.S. military has also invested in a range of flexible solar-panel technologies designed to power everything from night vision equipment and image intensification devices to laser-range finders, battlefield-ready laptop computers.
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These range from microwave ovens and laser light shows to home security systems and medical imaging devices. (CDER even regulates laser pointers but not online presentation software, if ever a true risk to human health).
According to Andy Mazzara, the director of the Institute for Non-Lethal Defence Technologies at Pennsylvania State University, prototypes of such devices use a laser to create an ionised channel of air through which an electromagnetic pulse is directed.
Sales of color-laser printers and multi-function devices that copy, print, scan and fax, have provided growth spurts, even as traditional black-and-white printing and copying shrinks.
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Canon may be most familiar as a camera company, but 50% of its third quarter revenue came from office products such as laser printers and multi-function devices.
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Channel TV said it had hired special devices to test the laser lighting for ITV and had given a verbal warning at the beginning of every programme.
Dr Cao's group first solved the problem of using Anderson localisation to create a true laser last year, but the resulting devices were a millimetre across.
Although several light and laser therapies have FDA approval as medical devices to treat acne, no true photodynamic acne therapy, combining photosensitizer and light, has been approved.
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Brother International introduced a new class of laser printer, fax, and multifunction products devices featuring 33.6-kbps fax transmission.
Some 7, 000 unmanned aerial vehicles, from small hand-launched devices to big robotic aircraft fitted with laser-guided bombs, are now deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Eventually, like laser printers, DNA printers will be inexpensive home devices.
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Using the wireless keyboard with built-in laser trackball, consumers can easily control, navigate, switch and interact with their HDMI-connected computers and devices.
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