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LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy
dvice.com - 6/30/2009
LED clock munches bugs and converts carcasses into energy
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Shades of Little Shop of Horrors ' Audrey with this LED clock from Brit designers Jimmy 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 ...

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Bug-powered LED Clock
Coolest Gadgets — ... Apparently it is the protein that the bug-powered clock wants, and so I guess all animals could be used for electric power. Imagine eating a KFC bucket and throwing the bones in the protein power generator. I can’t help but think that this is reminiscent of a Star Trek episode where the Enterprise lands on a planet that feeds off everything living aboard the ship. Yeah, I’m often disturbed at the thought that human beings could be the next fossil fuels. Source ...

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