Flying lasers don’t have the best track record. An Air Force program to burn intercontinental ballistic missiles out of the sky from a 747 crashed and burned. But the Navy’s aviators think sensors might be a more realistic target to fry from the sky.

Last November, the Naval Aviation Systems Command in New Jersey solicited bids to build lasers mounted on planes that could destroy optical sensors below. By next week, the Navy should be ready to move to a prototyping stage. And in a few years, adversaries tracking the movement of U.S. planes, ships and troops could find their sensors a...

The revolutionary Nintendo DS doesn’t have a whole lot of life left in it, but a handful of games at E3 are taking it out with a bang.

With a few minutes to kill before a demo, I wandered over to a lonely, unmanned DS kiosk and found Ki...