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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."
They are called 'immigrants'. The last names "Smith", "Jones", and "Gozales" are all immigrant last names as well. The first human residents of America (also immigrants) were names "Ogg" and "Igg". There weren't too many Europeans living here when they arrived.
I'm sure they probably felt the same angst that white Americans feel now when European settlers started invading their lands, taking all of the jobs and using all of the local services.
Chief Running Cloud probably had a strong election-year platform of immigration reform. It didn't work that well for him either.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
Actually, measuring humidity accurately for a reasonable period of time is very difficult - things tend to corrode, gum up, rot or wear out. I can buy a 0.1C temp sensor for 50 cents, a 1% humidity sensor costs $50 and in my test environment (a greenhouse) lasts about 2 years.