Do It Yourself Cyborg Kit

Add a little mini-camera and a transmitter, and you've got a perfect and somewhat poetic addition to the intelligence community's bag of tricks.

I know how I feel about it -- totally squicked.

Also, planning a new horror thriller.

So, the article suggests these Cyborugs can be used in search and rescue efforts. I immediately imagined myself trapped under a pile of bricks praying for extraction. All of a sudden a cockroach shows up and does a joy-sticking dance right in front of my face. The mission has just become search and recover.

GeorgeK said:

I see a growing market in counter surveillance equipment and pet lizards

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I can see me waking up with a tiny circuit board glued to my forehead as I plan stops at the grocery store and dry cleaners while my wife cackles fiendishly from another room.

GeorgeK said:

That's not a circuit board. That's a birthmark. It's always been there.

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Thanks Morpheus. I'll have the red pill, please.

dfwtinman said:

So, the article suggests these Cyborugs can be used in search and rescue efforts. I immediately imagined myself trapped under a pile of bricks praying for extraction. All of a sudden a cockroach shows up and does a joy-sticking dance right in front of my face. The mission has just become search and recover.

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What's that, Archie? Little dfwtinman has fallen down the well?

muravyets said:

What's that, Archie? Little dfwtinman has fallen down the well?

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You Know How It Goes

You steal a glance
And then a glare
You drink it in
till nothing's there

--tin

GeorgeK said:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/how-build-your-own-cockroach-cyborg

The technology is cool, but I'm not sure how I feel about it

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The new biology teacher at my old high school actually implemented making cyborg cockroaches as one of the high school biology lab experiments this spring.

Here's a link to a news video story about it. Pretty cool stuff. Wish we'd had it back in my high school days.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/videos/2013/mar/16/6501/

And for a printed story in case anyone can't watch the vid:

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2013/3/15/246667/Boyd-Buchanan-Students-Create-Cockroach.aspx

How delightfully mad science! Ha! You know, remote-controlled animals is old news, from where I'm sitting, but I never heard of anybody putting out a DIY kit! Smart move on their part, making it for cockroaches. Nobody gives a damn about the ethics of experimenting on disgusting animals. The unfortunate thing is, though, I think I'd be a lot more comfortable handling a rat than I would be handling a giant cockroach. I'm certainly not eager to go and attempt roach surgery, but I sure hope some bored smart kids are.

I'm just waiting for the XXL size. Then, my cyborg elephant army will no longer be a mere pipe dream.

Don said:

Add a little mini-camera and a transmitter, and you've got a perfect and somewhat poetic addition to the intelligence community's bag of tricks.

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They're light enough for this thing (not a cyborg, completely artificial), so there should be no problem with that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZbtZqH6Io