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Robotic Fish
Shikala of KoLari
writes "Here's a link to a CNN story on the
robotic fish that Japanese science has given us. Remind you of any 'You like our owl?' conversations in BladeRunner(TM) ? Now, all I want is a tank of these puppies in my cube at work.
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Posted by F.A.N.G.:
Fish are stupid. I'd rather see a sea full of e-fish than the stinky slimy unpredictable biologics. Mitsubishi made zeros during WW2, they cause rain forests to be destroyed, they KNOW where the world is heading. The whole world will look like newark, and the sky will be colors mother nature never dreamed of! No wimpy REAL fish will be able to survive.
Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:
I want a a Robotic shark with friggin laser beams strapped to thier heads
:)
put some explosives in these puppies and release a school of them into a major harbor... yikes.
Sorry, I should have read the post to which you were replying more carefully. I didn't notice he said "electronic".
axolotl
"My mother? Lemme tell you about my mother..."
No, the Bladerunner one was better
No, the Dune one was
No, she was prettie in Bladerunner
She was better in Dune... use VI!
Use emacs dammit!
That would be a bit shit. Very shit, in fact. I take it you mean exponentially, which is exactly the inverse of logarithmically.
Well... is it vicious?
So, when do we get to be immortal?
Now we're making expensive replicants that can only swim for 30 minutes. Now sure it's keen that we made a fish, but come on people. Priorities. How much more money is the human race going to spend on these crazy projects? There must be some less expensive way to cure boredom.
I still want one of those cool plastic birds that flies when you wind it up!
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Yeah, didn't Lister have two mechanical fish - Lennon and McCartney? And the cat broke his tooth trying to eat one...
Nick
-- "It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park" - Jim Moran
...needs to be photovoltaic (or whatever the technical term for solar-powered is :). So their activity cycle is based on when you turn the aquarium light on and off. :)
-cfw
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The Future: Some assembly required; batteries not included.
That's the funniest thing I have heard all day
I'd rather have that one from Clash of the Titans.
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Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
it intresting that they could only get 30 mins of battery life out of it, hope they can up it to around a few hours, and then find a way to allow it to recharge itself. What would be even better is if they could create a fuel system based on algae of some similar small life form, therby allowing the robotic fish to replenish its fuel source by it self.
Now if only NASA would wise up and ivest some money into robotic AI and technology instead of wasting time with manned missions.
Its spelt "L-I-N-U-X", but pronunced as "Free Beer"
no, you misunderstood what i said. I was trying to say that instead of spending money on manned missions, they could create AI robots that can do space exploration. They would be easy to replace, cand withstand hostile environment, and can have a spend longer periods of time in space than the human body can withstand. It just makes sense to use robots for space missions.
Its spelt "L-I-N-U-X", but pronunced as "Free Beer"
Maxis used to (still does?) have a product called 'el fish', which basically stood for 'Electronic Fish'. Basically, you could breed different fish, save them to disk and trade them with people, etc. Considering the graphical capabilities of the computers at the time, the graphics were nice. It even had an AI-based music generator that would auto create soothing music to fit your aquarium.
:>
You could add those little scuba diver things, various plants, and even a crab to your aquarium. There was even a cat paw that would try to 'fish' out one of your fish. It was pretty cool.
The breeding process basically involved finding a couple fish (there was a map where you could find them at random) and breed the best looking ones. Once you found the ones you were looking for, you could 'raise' them, which basically entailed dynamically rendering the graphics for the fish - a process that took forever on my old LCIII/68030.
Obviously, you could breed entire lineages of fish, picking and choosing your genetic participants.
If you can find it, check it out. Maxis always did sell some of the best geek software 'toys'...
- Darchmare
- Axis Mutatis, http://www.axismutatis.net
- Jeff
-Artifical?
-Of course it is.
:)) Bladerunner is definitely one of my favourite movies... Esp. the director's cut.
Guikachu: Resource editor for PalmOS developers
"Do you like our owl?"
Hrmm... The owl's Ok, but I really like your Rachel... Do I get one?
*drool*
A host is a host from coast to coast...
Unless it's down, or slow, or fails to POST!
If you start actually thinking about these sort of things - or, for example, the amount of resources our species spends on advertising, or the fact that California has more than doubled the number of prisons in the past 20 years yet not built a single new public university - your head will explode.
Just look at the pretty blinking lights.
I'm gonna get you little fishie!
STR
Sean
Wait a minute! These fish are placed in angling pools? As in, to be caught? What's the point? Just wait a half hour till the batteries die, and net them out of the water. :)
:)
Seriously though, if these things present a reasonable facimile of fish, in terms of fishing for them, then this really is something interesting. If they just float around, that's nothing, but if they discriminate bait, put up a fight, and spit the hook... Well, I'd still prefer spearing them.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
While some 'Experts' are trying to draw pictures of extinct fish, these guys are going to give us moving 'art'.
I'll admit, the 30-min battery life sucks, but I bet they could use some magnetic induction technology to let the fish charge up as it gets near the bottom of the tank. It would actually get it's 'food' from the bottom. Now how cool is that?
... when the batteries die do the fish float belly-up?
"Arrr! The laws of science be a harsh mistress." -- Bender
... I'd like my own Deckerd!
"Arrr! The laws of science be a harsh mistress." -- Bender
Any idea if I can go down to the local Kay Bee Toys and pick one up yet? ;)
http://web.mit.edu/org/s/spiral/www/People/trian.h tml
@Article{Triantafyllou:1995:ESM,
author = "Michael S. Triantafyllou and George S. Triantafyllou",
title = "An Efficient Swimming Machine",
journal = "Scientific American",
year = 1995,
month = "Mar."
}
[The only way to distinguish the robot fish from the real ones is by looking at their eyes]
You've got to be kidding me? Did anyone here NOT look at that QT movie and immediately think "that fish is paralyzed!"? The ONLY thing moving on it was it's tail. If they want to mimic a Live fish they're going to have to do a heck of a lot better than that.
this answer (correct as it is) reminds me strongly of the book 'strata' by terry pratchett ... anyway, an interesting book as regards artificial creation ...