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RoboRoach
Backyard Brains has developed a product that allows cockroaches to be controlled via remote control, called RoboRoach. When a cockroach’s antennae hit a wall, it knows to move in the other direction. RoboRoach stimulates those antennae and tricks the roach into thinking it hit some kind of blockage, telling the roach to move in another direction.
The point – other than endless entertainment – is to teach high school students about the principles of microstimulation of neurons, the proper stimulation frequencies, the proper circuit design and basic neurophysiology.
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Way to pick up on news that's literally ten years old. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2007/02/27/tech-pigeon.html
This video was posted 15 days ago. We do appreciate how on top of remote controlled vermin you are, however.
this is cruel
Cockroach uprising? Give them the technology, and with their ability to (somewhat) survive a nuclear war, we've just created man's deadliest foe.
Good job, science.
I've got this great idea: SMS-based updates about your life. You know, what you're doing, what you're reading, funny images from the web. Yeah, yeah, I know that Twitter invented this years ago. But here's the rub: I made a video about it 15 days ago. So now it's definitely new news.
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