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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."
Some higher species might be doing the same thing with us humans.
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
If you hit their modem line and hack into, another game will be available, "Global Biological War", but i remember that the only way to win is not to play it.
you do know where your posting right ?
Hope you've never played naughts and crosses on paper, that shit is made fom plants you know.
uhh...it's worse than dog fights? You're trolling, right? Dogs are social, self-aware beings that can solve complex problems, have emotions, form social bonds, suffer, experience joy, etc. Paramecium...are single-celled organisms. You might as well be concerned about torturing a rock, or air; they have no ability to feel pain, and certainly no ability to suffer.
Correction, there is no apostrophe.
If it rhymes it must be true.
This creeps me the fuck out on a base level.