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Researchers Develop Remote-Controlled Cyber-Roaches
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a series of remote-controlled cyber-roaches that could aid in future disaster relief efforts. The cockroaches are strapped to circuit boards and microphones, which they carry around. The circuits control the movements of each roach, and the microphone is capable of detecting environmental sounds and their sources. "In a collapsed building, sound is the best way to find survivors," said Dr. Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University and senior author of two papers on the work."
There is a program on my bug.
Achille Talon
Hop!
I have enough problems with those damned creatures as is! /jk
Hmm, the humour and sarcasm seem to have been be lost on you.
There was a roach bug in that film. Complete with electronics backpack and ridiculous but hilarious dish antenna.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrHMBletjXg
a guy did this in his basement years ago..yawn.
CIA has been useing this for year and just now they found some thing better so they let this come out.
Or whatever they call it in USA, now. CIA, NSA whatever
From almost exactly a year ago...
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
Once again, predicted by Sci-Fi.
I had some Mexicans in the neighborhood recently and you know how they make make-shift trash recipticals by leaning sheets of wood together. They had spray painted "el guapo" on the side of it... I don't get it
I for one welcome our new cyber-roach overlords.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
Although it's probably very useful in the Middle East, something to think about here at home fascists and authoritarians.
I am reminded of a passage from Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light (1967):
An excellent novel, one of my favorites.
Sadly, the Avon edition that I used to own was the absolute worst example of typographical errors I have ever seen: at least a dozen cases of misplaced or duplicated lines. Bad enough that I could no longer enjoy re-reading a book so grievously mangled by the publisher.
Don't say it -- stop -- I'll say it myself: the book was full of bugs.
-kgj
Check out the backyardbrains website. They provide materials for doing this sort of thing at home as part of an educational kit. I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
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I'm so glad technology has come to the point where I can stop reading science fiction novels for entertainment and just pick up a newspaper.
A researcher from NorthCarolina State University, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, goes on to create an capitalist empire from his many court settlements. Apparently he found roaches in his meals at many restaurants.
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
Even before The Fifth Element was episode 3.12 of the X-Files, "War of the Coprophages", January, 1996.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751259/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_30
Although much of the episode concerned biological cockroaches and human responses to them, there was also a roach that Mulder squashed and found to be made of strange metallic substances, with conjecture about planetary exploration by aliens via robots in the inconspicuous form of native insects, e.g. roaches.
This is a very old news item. I remember reading about this several years ago. There are even how-to instructions published in 2012.
Collapsed buildings containing trapped human victims are most likely to occur in underdeveloped nations
Assumption one.
Buildings NEVER crash in developed nations or people there simply don't ever get trapped in such situations?
underdeveloped nations which lack building codes or construction techniques to resist earthquakes
Assumption two.
"Third world" is a place on a map. Probably somewhere in Africa. Which is a country of poor people. Hungry people. Stupid people. Cruel people.
People who lack architectural and other knowledge as well as any care for human lives or quality thereof.
They don't know of building codes cause they are simply not civilized enough.
Or they can't afford to use them cause they are poor. Or greedy. Or lazy.
Or all of the above.
Unlike in developed countries where care for human lives is the only thing valued more than science and knowledge.
That is why assumption one - no accidents ever happen in the "first world" and everyone is kind and good and smart and gentle and caring.
No one would DREAM violating codes in "first world" and that is why god loves them and doesn't send disasters there.
I mean... who ever heard of an Earthquake in California, or a tornado in Kansas, or someone blowing up a building in New York, or any buildings ever collapsing for any reason in USA, right?
Or someone making changes against the building codes or simply violating them... say... in Italy?
Is Italy "third world"? It's just next to Africa.
Or Israel. That's like right there in Africa. They got a desert and everything.
But I could have sworn that South Korea is not in Africa... ah well.
Such nations are also less likely to worry about luxuries like pest control
Assumption three.
Yeah... Everyone in dirty, poor, stupid third world countries just doesn't use insecticide.
It's not so much that it is a luxury, they simply don't comprehend how it works.
And again... They don't care for human lives at all.
Assumption four.
Despite being stupid, cruel, filthy, poor, careless etc. - they WILL use super-duper tele-roaches to track people trapped under the rubble?
No money for insecticide - but plenty money for techno toys for rescue services?
No care for human lives when it comes to codes and construction and living in insect free homes - but plenty of care once the people get squashed?
Sounds kinda contradictory. Methinks.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens