Modern smartphones can survive drops and even take a swim, but they may have met their match – and it's not what anyone ...

One reddit user found out earlier this month that car-mounted lidar sensors can damage a phone camera under certain circumstances. It was the technological equivalent of staring directly into the Sun.

A car’s lidar sensor can permanently damage your phone camera if you point it directly at it. A Galaxy S24 Ultra owner reported similar damage after attending a laser-heavy light show.

There's no dispute that powerful lasers can damage cameras. The website of the International Laser Display Association, which represents companies running laser light shows, says that "camera ...

the damage only appeared when the telephoto module was engaged. The video shows how the pulsing laser damaged individual pixels on the sensor when the camera operator zoomed in, then it shows how ...

Lasers can damage your phone’s camera! Concentrated laser beams, even “eye-safe” ones, can permanently “fry” the tiny pixels on your phone’s camera sensor. This risk extends to modern ...

the iRadar ATOM is the smallest and most powerful radar/laser/camera detection system ever developed by Cobra. By leveraging advances in system design and component engineering, the iRadar ATOM ...

NASA hasdeveloped a new three-dimensional laser scanner to seek out cracks and otherdamage amidst the thousands of ceramic tiles that protect space shuttles fromthe heat of reentry. Smaller ...

GPS navigation devices and satellite radio receivers are the most common, but for the dedicated road warrior, a radar/laser ... camera takes your picture and you receive a ticket in the mail ...

G.I. Joe used them to battle Cobra’s evil forces ... The duration of the laser pulse is somewhere near 100ns, so he was unable to catch it on camera, but its effects are easily visible in ...