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Play Pacman, Pinball, and Pong With a Paramecium
An anonymous reader writes "Science is rarely ever this cool! 'Physicist Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team from Stanford University have done just that by creating versions of classic games that you can navigate by physically controlling living organisms. A game called PAC-mecium is Pacman with a twist: players use a console to change the polarity of an electrical field in a fluid chamber filled with paramecia, which makes the organisms move in different directions. A camera sends real-time images to a computer, where they are superimposed onto a game board (see video above). By looking at the screen, a player can guide the paramecia to eat virtual yeast cells and make them avoid Pacman-like fish. A microprocessor tracks the movement of the organisms to keep score.' Also available are versions of Pinball, Pong, and soccer."
go to i95 or you rlocal 8 lane highway, play frogger for real
since frog muscles will respond to electric jolts after death, do it with a dead frog, so PETA can't complain
then you have something even better than the classic arcade: zombie frogger
or, more in style with the electrical bolts and mad scientist-messing-with-life theme here: frankenstein frogger
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
you do know where your posting right ?
Correction, there is no apostrophe.
If it rhymes it must be true.
I know it does. I just upped the impulse in your amygdala and slightly lowered your dopamine. It was a slight penalty to my logical reasoning score but gave me much needed morality points.
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