[dr_who]

Hope this wasn’t funded by the pentagon.

[BermanPost]

I do not believe it was, but maybe the Pentagon should take a peak at the tracking technology to possibly bolster the successful missile shield laser. That is if it was not about to be axed.

[diverteach]

“Hope this wasn’t funded by the pentagon.”

They wouldn’t be a paltry $50 if it was. $5000 maybe

[Windflier]

From the CNN.com article about this technology:

"The research was commissioned by Intellectual Ventures, a Washington, U.S.-based company that was founded by Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft Corporation executive.

His previous boss, Bill Gates, who funded the research, asked Myhrvold to look into new ways of combating malaria."

'Star Wars' scientists create laser gun to kill mosquitoes