Laser weaponry looks like becoming part of future army's arsenal, including non-lethal "flashes" designed to stop car drivers.

Petawatt laser activated in Texas.

World's first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser.

Artemis satellite links up with moving plane.

20 billion trillion watts per square centimetre.

There isn't much point, after all, in owning a network printer capable of printing thousands of pages per month at a ridiculously low price per page if the people that use it don't print out that much on a day-to-day basis.

Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

Real-time effect of anticancer drugs seen in 3D.

Taking a page out of the popular science fiction series, scientists have managed to turn aluminium into a new transparent form of matter, after it was placed under extreme ultraviolent radiation.

Printer sales in Australia fell 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003 to 390,000 units, and are expected to fall another 13 percent for the full year 2004, IDC said.

Blank optical media bundled with software.

Logitech has launched a new range of laser mice that can work on glass or shiny surfaces. The new mice use two lasers rather than one to work on a variety of previously unusable surfaces.

30 major consumer electronics firms under the spotlight.

From flying cars to hoverboards, and AI to lasers, we delve into 10 technologies from a list of iconic films and find out just how close we are to making each a reality

Devices can fetch items indicated with laser pointer.

Handheld units could have applications for anti-terrorism, disaster reliefand forensics.

The world's first universal programmable quantum computer has been unveiled in Colarado by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.