This places is bugged!
This just in! DARPA is looking at plans to insert tiny mechanical devices into insects. What for? Why, for all kinds of creepy fun, of course! They hope to be able to control the physical movement of these bugs, and make them fly, hop or crawl their way into areas where troops can’t (or shouldn’t go). Once there, the bugs will transmit data back to the Department of Defense, by way of microphones, video cameras and other sensors. They’re even hoping they can harness the natural heat given off by the insects to power these miniature devices. I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords…
Here’s a thought - if you killed one of these military, would you get in trouble for destroying government property? Federal crime anyone?
You know what this means? This means that soon the “Google spiders” that visit webpages to index content for later searching will soon very likely be *real* spiders, scuttling through your house and office, recording and indexing content for a huge centralized database. I am 100,000,000% sure that somebody at Google has been thinking of just such a thing for years. Hopefully the confluence of military and corporate interests will help everybody reach their wonderfully creepy dystopian goals. Everybody but us, that is. Although, I’m sure that the consumer will be tossed a bone if such a technology ever came into commercial use. I mean, it would be kind of useful to search Google and have it tell you where you left your carkeys, right?
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Life imitates art: “X-Files” did an episode on cyborg-cockroaches, didn’t they?
And didn’t the Fifth Element have a cockroach that transmitted intel back to the President and his administration? Incidentally, I dunno if you were deliberately mentioning google finding your carkeys because of the recent ‘joke’ page someone created, but yah…..I honestly see this happening within our lifetime. (and by that, I mean the next 10 years) Check it out.
Oh sure the use of insects to perform all sorts of tasks seems attractive to DARPA now, but just wait until the cockroaches form a union.
I’m not sure how this ranks with DARPA’s proposed terrorist bookie pool idea, but the creativity score’s gotta be up there.
Pete that link is broken. And no I havent seen any joke page youre referencing.
Starship Troopers!
Sorry about that. Here ya go.
Google Search
I also just tracked down the video of the new robots that climb trees and walls, called RiSE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfP0Ig7eVQ
Freaky!
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