Arthrobots, Insect Sculptures Made From Watch Parts and Bullets. Spectrum: Backyard Star Wars. “So, how would you kill mosquitoes with a laser?”
Nathan Myhrvold asked us. Lowell Wood, Rod Hyde, and I smiled. The three of us were meeting with Myhrvold in the fall of 2006, in an office at Intellectual Ventures Management, a company in Bellevue, Wash., that he founded in 2000 to create and invest in inventions. The mystery of collective intelligence.