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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on February 19, 2009, 08:19:28 AM

Title: cyborg moths, IEEE Spectrum article
Post by: Admin on February 19, 2009, 08:19:28 AM

I thought this to be an informative article about converting moths into cyborgs.

But don't freak out just yet, they haven't yet figured out several important things such as fitting a wireless camera or GPS onto the moth. But they are making good progress.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb09/7747

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Attempts by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic bugs) have yielded ultralow-power radios to control the bugs’ flight and a method of powering those circuits by harvesting energy, according to research that will be reported this week at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

(http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/images/feb09/images/MEMS08_BTI01.jpg)
(http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/images/feb09/images/MEMS08_BTI2.jpg)