OIDA Market Report
Are There New Markets Left for Lasers?
Tom Hausken delves into the difference between new and improved applications, and asks what really drives novel uses of laser technology.
Apple iPhone shipments, in millions of units per quarter, showing growth as new models substitute for earlier ones. [OIDA, from company reports.]
Have you ever heard someone say that there are limitless laser applications that we haven’t yet thought of? Or that certain science fiction writers had remarkable prescience for imagining things like tricorders, pen cameras, phasers or Dick Tracy watches that seem superficially like some products today?
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