engadget.com - 6/29/2009
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It's not enough that humans gave robots a place to congregate to plan our demise, now we've adapted them with the ability to extract fuel from the very nectar of life. All that innocent experimentation with fuel cells that run on blood has led to this, a flesh-eating clock. This prototype ...
hackaday.com - 6/29/2009
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hackaday.com —
Artists [James Auger] and [Jimmy Loizeau] have put
out this display of carnivorous robots . Pictured above...
is a clock that is powered by a microbial fuel cell. The clock is equipped with a scroll of sticky paper for catching the flies which it ...
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LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy
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... Loizeau and James Auger. Part flycatcher, part timepiece, the gizmo harvests insects on a sticky roller covered in flypaper, before dropping the corpses into a microbial fuel cell.
The dead bug is then digested by the bacteria within, and the chemical changes are used by the cell to power the clock. Simple, huh? Well, simple if your mind moves in mysterious ways, I suppose. There's a close-up for fans of six-legged snuff porn below.
New Scientist Via Engadget
Fly-Powered Gadgets Indulge Your Small-Scale Supervillain Fantasies [Robots]
Gizmodo —
... of flies, and in one case, mice. Auger and Loizeau's unsettling apparati, including the the sticky conveyor belt clock and moth-attracting death lamp above, sound an awful lot like the basement experiments of a troubled tween chemistry enthusiast. In reality, and as evidenced by the devices' creative construction and execution, the pair are designers, and the carnivorous robots are pieces of art, not masked cries for help. [New Scientist via Hackaday via Engadget]
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