You’d expect a $53,700 backpack laser to be some DARPA super weapon that’s stuck in a perpetual “five years away” as more and more cable specials are produced on the matter. But actually, the backpack ...

Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

European laser cleaning specialist has received its first orders for a ready-to-wear fiber laser system. German firm Clean Laser System has launched what it claims is the first backpack mounted fiber ...

A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley, where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and ...

While Google is busy mapping out the exterior world, where all our streets and buildings are, there hasn't been much work on the interior part of the whole thing. But, considering the amount of ...

image: A portable, laser backpack for 3-D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, ...