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Cyborg Cells Sense Humidity
Gadgetizer writes "Mark Peplow over at Nature.com published this story on 'Cellborg Technology' yesterday: "Living bacteria have been incorporated into an electronic circuit to produce a sensitive humidity gauge. The device unites microbe and machine, taking advantage of the properties of both to make for a supersensitive sensor. "As far as we know, this is the first report of using microorganisms to make an electronic device," says Ravi Saraf, a chemist from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, who developed the 'cellborg' with his student Vikas Berry."
...how the original Borg came about. It all starts with harmless Cellborgs, then you link them to a massive interconnected network, and then they start thinking on their own. And then they take over.
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In the comics and movies, the cyborgs had super strength, could run fast, maybe shoot lasers out of their frickin' eyes, and so on.
Science fiction has failed us yet again. It's clear that the real cyborgs will simply have great skill at predicting the weather.
Go figure.
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Quality-Control In Microbial Manufacturing
Chapter 1: Maintaining a dirty-room enivronment
Chapter 2: Preventing evolution
Seeing bad movies only encourages them. Watch responsibly
No one's ever come up with a way to gauge humidity before. This'll surely be more cost effective than all current alternatives.
Rank my idea: http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/node/531
There are farms, Neo, vast farms where bacteria are grown, to turn a germ into... THIS. [HOLDS UP HUMIDITY SENSOR]