Soldiers in Afghanistan could detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with a remote tool created by researchers in Switzerland.
The technology can activate homemade landmines at a distance of up to 25m by transmitting electromagnetic waves at a range of frequencies. This inducts a current in the devices and causes them to explode.
Researchers from the Swiss technology institute EPFL have worked for two years with the universities of Colombia and Los Andes to overcome the difficulties of removing IEDs, which are especially hard to find because they tend to be mostly made of plastic.
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