Carnivorous Clock Eats Bugs 197
Designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have created a clock that is powered by "eating" bugs. The clock traps insects on flypaper stretched across a roller system and then drops them into a vat of bacteria. The insects are then "digested" and the ensuing chemical reaction is transformed into power that keeps the rollers moving and the LCD clock working. The two offer another version that is powered by mice and an even cooler machine that picks insect fuel from spiderwebs with the help of a robotic arm and a video camera.
Bugs? (Score:4, Funny)
have an order (Score:3, Funny)
Could i please have house alarm from same company please?
Cool For now. (Score:5, Funny)
Until people start hacking these and needs more power. Then starts going for human flesh.
It's one small step from a bug... (Score:3, Funny)
Prayer for Vista? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh sure... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool For now. (Score:3, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new clock overlords.
Ethical Treatment of Flies (Score:5, Funny)
Nice to see that PETA [petacatalog.org] is already all over this.
These bloodthirsty, gut-wrenching robots, designed by UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau thrive on killing and liquidizing flies and mice, whilst serving the purpose of⦠well, not much at all really.
They even have their own vision [petacatalog.org] of insect disposal.
I wonder if they target antibacterial soap and penicillin next...
Re:Ethical Treatment of Flies (Score:4, Funny)
The universe is hostile, so impersonal; devour to survive, so it is, so it's always been.
The more PETA irritates me, the more I want to hang dead animals by their necks outside their headquarters at night. And I'm starting to feel encouraged to hang not-quite-dead things that are still wriggling... I used to really like animals....
Re:umm...why??? (Score:5, Funny)
The power generated might be enough to run one headlight. But what would really be interesting is capturing some of the speed energy to help charge the battery. But with using wind.
I'll do you one better. Attach a sail to the car so that almost all of the "speed" energy is harvested. Fans harvesting electricity from the "wind" generated by the engine propelling the car is less efficient than the engine just making the electricity.
Re:Cool For now. (Score:5, Funny)
"I had to OC my clock, so I added a butterfly trap to get extra energy."
Re:Ethical Treatment of Flies (Score:3, Funny)
I personally think Maddox's ideas for stopping Peta are the way forward. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sponsor [thebestpag...iverse.net]
Re:How about linking to the actual source (Score:3, Funny)
Because slashdot is a website that is powered by these clicks. Each time you click on a hyperlink your mouse generates 1 joule of energy that gets faxed to the slashdot server farm using the technology patented by Dilbert.
Re:Applications (Score:4, Funny)
No, the piratical application involves ship-sized receptacles, cutlasses, and ropes to fetch fuel.
Re:Cool For now. (Score:5, Funny)
Larger version needed (Score:3, Funny)
Democrat school playground. Fewer moronic bad-science laws.
Re:Bugs? (Score:5, Funny)
Not only that, if this catches on, it'll just be a matter of time before we start running out of bugs in the US and have to start relying on foriegn sources of bugs.
And for the alarm... (Score:4, Funny)
And for the alarm, the clock says
"help me! help me! help me!"
In summary (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cool For now. (Score:4, Funny)
"At the tone, the time will be 11:13am. BEEP."
"At the sound of your blood curdling screams and unheralded pleas for mercy, the time will be 11:14am."
Re:Bugs? (Score:5, Funny)
We haven't figured that part out yet.
But we do know it was us that scorched the sky or something to that effect.
Re:Bugs? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes... but a scraper that scrapes bugs off the flypaper would also scrape the glue off the fly paper, rendering it pretty useless, right?
That's why your scraper uses an edge made of pure anti-protons. Absolutely pure!