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Remote Controlled Rats

Posted by timothy on from the disney-beat-them-to-it dept.

sclatter writes: "They aren't precisely robot rats, but these little rodents can be cued to perform different actions through electrodes implanted in their brains. Could be a boon for search and rescue in collapsed buildings!" As one skeptic in the article says, though, "Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades."

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  1. Re:Actually.. by daeley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I got back this morning from a long weekend in Vegas at 6 AM after a night's drive, then at a meeting at 8 AM, gave a presentation (somewhat rambling) at 8:45, and now am trying to see just how much coffee one human can consume. The fact that I am able to construct reasonably coherent thoughts, much less sentences, occasionally makes me giddy.

    Which is to say that I think you might be right on about the chemicals seizing me. :)

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    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.