http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPiF4-iu6g
I'm amazed and horrified, and oh God the flashbacks of the Terminator series is just haunting me right now. This is scary, and I can only imagine that if this works with rodents, we could be one step away from the process. Discuss.
Cybernetic Zombie Rats?
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- The Konami Number
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I'm amazed and terried :O
But that's pretty cool. Perhaps in the future we'll have chips in our heads that allow us to directly communicate with several electronic devices. Like remote control planes, mp3 players and even computers :O
But that's pretty cool. Perhaps in the future we'll have chips in our heads that allow us to directly communicate with several electronic devices. Like remote control planes, mp3 players and even computers :O
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Ooh, freaky lil electronic rodent bugger.
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Terrified?
This just made me laugh a bit and amazed me for a reason I don't know.
This just made me laugh a bit and amazed me for a reason I don't know.
They can't. They can make that, but they can't force us to that. But the days' condition would be a lot different, so. :/Destiny wrote: Perhaps in the future we'll have chips in our heads that allow us to directly communicate with several electronic devices. Like remote control planes, mp3 players and even computers.
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what?transmitted to the rats brain by bluetooth
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I can do all that with my phone?smartalco wrote:what?transmitted to the rats brain by bluetooth
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Do you really believe this?Mae wrote:I can do all that with my phone?smartalco wrote:what?transmitted to the rats brain by bluetooth
~I don't.
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I'm calling shenanigans for now.
Diagonal View appears to be an entertainment site more than any sort of source, and they don't give the original source, so they could easily have just overlaid their own text on the video.
Green LED's are able to send the same signals to the rat's brain that its optic nerves did? Really? Bluetooth? A rat's brain can survive for three months without proper nutrition? And rats behave like any classic product of an undergraduate robotics lab? Its random movement made it go in reverse and spin > 180 degrees at times, and otherwise defaulted to moving in one direction until it detected a wall before turning. It never tried to examine anything, hide, or move slower than its one velocity.
I'm skeptical.
Diagonal View appears to be an entertainment site more than any sort of source, and they don't give the original source, so they could easily have just overlaid their own text on the video.
Green LED's are able to send the same signals to the rat's brain that its optic nerves did? Really? Bluetooth? A rat's brain can survive for three months without proper nutrition? And rats behave like any classic product of an undergraduate robotics lab? Its random movement made it go in reverse and spin > 180 degrees at times, and otherwise defaulted to moving in one direction until it detected a wall before turning. It never tried to examine anything, hide, or move slower than its one velocity.
I'm skeptical.
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That was what my 'what?' was supposed to imply.Tsukatu wrote:I'm skeptical.
Tycho: "I don't know why people ever, ever try to stop nerds from doing things. It's really the most incredible waste of time."
Adam Savage: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
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It is of course, untrue. But interesting none the less for the thoughts it provokes.
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Totally fake.
RATS HAVE BLUETOOTH INDZ THEIRZ BREAINZ
(and if it was totally independent, it wouldn't need an antenna, haha)
Well, if this was true, the movement issues were there possibly because a rat usually doesn't have two wheels (the third is only for it to stand correctly).Tsukatu wrote: Its random movement made it go in reverse and spin > 180 degrees at times, and otherwise defaulted to moving in one direction until it detected a wall before turning. It never tried to examine anything, hide, or move slower than its one velocity.
RATS HAVE BLUETOOTH INDZ THEIRZ BREAINZ
(and if it was totally independent, it wouldn't need an antenna, haha)
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