The typical effect, when one watches Curry play, is to become so transfixed by his laser-sharp shooting that it's no longer possible to focus on anything else.

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While the driving lights are the first use of a laser beam reflected off a mirror, the daytime running lamps, with their characteristic "torch" effect, and the indicator lights use LEDs.

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An optical laser reads the transparency and creates a wobbly, out-of-tune, almost eerie-sounding keyboard effect.

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One is an adaptation of a well-known effect called "optical tweezers" in which objects can be trapped in the focus of one or two laser beams.

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