Yet, keeping these household water collections free from mosquito breeding only requires simple measures: storing drinking water under cover so that mosquitoes cannot deposit their eggs.

Pilot production of Kruer's mosquito trap will begin in early February, with a full roll-out set for May 2009.

And then there's Myhrvold's favorite -- a laser mosquito zapper that can tell the difference between males, which aren't carriers of malaria, and females, which are.