Stingray Fish Laser

(stingray.no)

31 points | by tptacek 2 days ago

17 comments

  • arjie 7 hours ago
    Fascinating. Very cool technology. I was curious if it worked and it's funny, there's a study that says it doesn't work[0] but it seems that farmers keep wanting more[1]. Amusing.

    0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016758771...

    1: https://weareaquaculture.com/news/aquaculture/nordlaks-inves...

  • rootedbox 9 hours ago
    worst website ui.. ever.
    • pockybum522 7 hours ago
      I don't know what you're talking about. I personally love being forced to spend ~30 seconds on mobile scrolling through descriptionless angles of something I don't know anything about yet. (/s, to be clear. I agree with you 100%)
      • injidup 7 hours ago
        What is the world coming to when such obvious agreeable sarcasm requires a /s sarcasm tag to avoid triggering anyone.
    • AnneTrotter 8 hours ago
      I spent 3 seconds trying to scroll on the page and gave up to see what people were saying here instead. Apparently we are all the same.
      • riffraff 7 hours ago
        Ditto
      • birdsongs 7 hours ago
        It was scrolling so slowly to reveal the hardware device, I was scrolling down and down. Then it accelerated and I hit the end of the page (and through all the actual content) in about 1 second.
    • dtgriscom 3 hours ago
      I'm so glad that the illumination LEDs are "Royal Blue."
  • xnx 9 hours ago
    A video of this in action is going around on social media recently. Here's a short clip from year ago that's much better than the company website: https://youtube.com/shorts/6sGkVQUvW20
    • petesergeant 8 hours ago
      It's entirely unclear how much of this is real and AI footage though
  • mrheosuper 9 hours ago
    Isn't water really bad environment for light transmission?
  • gorgoiler 9 hours ago
    I wish more things had bolts on them, it screams “take me apart and fix me!”

    On the flip side the last thing I’d want to open up is an autonomous laser gun. I wonder what the safety-catch looks like on this thing? A big metal shutter?

  • metalman 2 hours ago
    I would realy like to see one of these in action, as anything that kills parasites non chemicaly is going to be the only viable way to controll them going forward, which is why the worlds most horrible web site works, because if you flick hard it gets you to an actual phone number and physical address, which is what a farmer will use, with the words I put at the top, here, comming out of there mouth, and presumably the demo involves real time video of frying lice, which for anyone involved in any agriculture, will be a beutifull sight. If this company is any good, there main quest will be data aquisition and working constantly on the next iteration, and marketing will be very traditional, based on word of mouth concerning proffits and quality. The unwritten promise is that by reducing the parisite load, other infections will drop dramaticly, use of chemicals and antibiotics can be reduced or eliminated ,quality goes up, and concerns about the environment and animal welfare go down. This, is , BIG.
  • asdf88990 9 hours ago
    Does it come with a vim plugin?
  • lakt42t 9 hours ago
    [dead]
  • jasonkester 7 hours ago
    What a strange idea for a website. An extreme closeup of a machine that vaguely rotates a bit as you scroll down for seemingly miles trying to find a single word explaining what you’re looking at.

    Then when you finally get past it, the first text on the page says “our software is constantly being improved…”, as though we already knew what this thing was and what it did.

    Nothing else further down gives us any more clues.

    Maybe on a Mac desktop or whatever the designers used, there is text happening during all that scrolling?

    • FinnLobsien 2 hours ago
      Frankly, I don't think this website is intended to directly convert visitors into customers, and rather to be an impressive show for a novel technology. At that it succeeds.
  • lapinot 2 hours ago
    Overcrowded salmon farms gets the fish lice infestation, no problem, just put a computer vision guided laser blaster in there. Surely there is nothing wrong with the whole situation.
  • Toynbeeidea 8 hours ago
    I was hoping for a shark wth fricken laser beams...
  • waltbosz 9 hours ago
    It's that time for the complaints about page scroll UX
    • waltbosz 9 hours ago
      Seriously though, what is this thing? A submersible robot that uses lasers to kills pest in fish farms? Weren't we going to get that technology for mosquitoes?
  • hackernud3s 7 hours ago
    Finally we will get some revenge for Steve Irwin!
  • sgt 4 hours ago
    Great product, but the most horrific web page I have seen in 2026.
  • kylehotchkiss 9 hours ago
    What happens when the parasites evolve a resistance to green lasers, as they tend to do
    • 3eb7988a1663 8 hours ago
      This strikes me as evolving resistance to fire. Sure, it would be a great adaptation, but there is only so much a body can do to mitigate a concentrated burst of energy.

      More likely is potentially better camouflage or locating on an area of the fish which is harder to target.

    • cmoski 9 hours ago
      Blue lasers!
    • injidup 6 hours ago
      Nuke em from orbit
  • Havoc 4 hours ago
    What an utter shitshow of a website.

    Please for the love of god put a brief intro on what it is on landing pages. Not close up shots and hijacked scroll and text about stereoscopic cams.

    Stereoscopic cams ON WHAT. What is it...