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NYTimes Year in Ideas

Posted by michael on from the when-ratbots-attack-a-fox-special dept.

jonbrewer writes "The New York Times is back again with their "Year in Ideas" and one that Slashdot missed this year was the RatBot. As featured in the BBC and Business 2.0 earlier this year, these critters are trained to navigate mazes based on remote stimuli. Ethical? Doubtful. Cool? Yes."

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  1. Missed?? by martingunnarsson · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think /. missed the rat-story, I even recall it was a dupe!

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    Martin
  2. hrmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am Mickey of Borg.

  3. had to be said by goombah99 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Imagine a beowulf cluster of ratbots...

    sorry I tried not saying it, but I couldn't do it

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    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
  4. NYTimes: Idea of the year chosen by SlashDot by dagg · · Score: 5, Funny
    NYTimes idea of the year chosen by SlashDot members:
    Random Login Generator
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    Sex - Find It
  5. Ethical? Doubtful. Cool? Speak for yourself. by Sanity · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't know about you, but I don't think there is anything "cool" about animal cruelty. This has no realistic medical applications, and only the rat really knows how painful this experiment is.

    Now, if we could wire Michael up with this kind of thing and send him a signal to stop squatting on the censorware.org domain, that wouldn't be ethical either - but it would definitely be cool.