Image via Skinny Puppy's VIVIsectVI.
Gizmodo reports today on a new device by Inscentinel, called a vapour detection instrument which uses trained bees to sniff out drugs, bombs and basically anything the TSA is banning this week. I am no fan of bees, but seeing the little insects strapped to the end of that odd device ... well, it just looks weird. Their motto of "Naturally inspired sensing solutions" by "creating tailored vapour detection technology for global applications" makes the curious geek in me rejoice, though the unnecessary "u" makes me run for my freedom fries.
National Geographic has a strange article on a sheet of elastic film, studded with rat muscles, which can flex under its own power. This odd turn of technology
...could point the way to sophisticated new "soft robots," effective replacement organs, and better prosthetic devices.
If we can't cut them, lets just transplant them or make them do our bidding. Some people will not amused. But we better be careful because the spiders have begun to organize against us.
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