Judgement Day Is Near…!?

But the war is not between man and machine but between moths with machines… and other moths with other machines…?

Believe it or not there are companies experimenting with robots and moths that are very reminiscent of two very famous films.

Terminator-Moth

The idea of an internal robot occupying the space of the moths ‘entrails’ used for ‘bugging’ purposes in a military field capacity. The hopes are tobe able to camouflage surveillance equipment within the body of an insect. Remote control pet or Skynet in insect form?

Robocop-Moth

Scientists hoping to use people’s minds to control robots, have been using electrical impulses of Moths’ brains to move a small robot around. Similar to the exoskeleton in Robocop.

TED Talks and God Speaks

I was browsing TED Talks and came across this video.

The guy is basically designing new forms of life, at the level of bacteria but still he managed to transfer a chromosome from one to another and get the new chromosome to overwrite the existing one by making it think the existing one was foreign. He’s also written his own chromosome and is hoping to implant that and ‘boot it up’ in the same way. In case you wondered, its over 500,000 letters long. Thats 140 pages at size 10 type.

The first half of the video is amazing. The implications are far reaching. He even said the scientists working on the project ‘watermarked’ the genetic code (made of G A T C) by arranging different inert groupings of letters to sign their names in the chromosome. Biological Meta-data!

The second half is an interview style scenario and at the end, about 31 mins in, the interviewer asks “Aren’t you playing God?” to which he replies “We’re not playing”.

Theres also a question about security and new forms of bio-weaponry.

Amazing stuff I think you’ll agree.

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Not Just For Cars

I found this very interesting article about a hydrogen fuel cell powered phone! Of all things! This is the first live piece of technology I have seen to be powered by such technology other than cars. This leads to the interesting question about what else could be powered by such fuel cells - Laptops? Cameras? What would the benefits be of using such technology rather than traditional batteries?

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