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This is good stuff. They have a clock that feeds on dead flies, and a table that lures mice into a guillotined death!
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You're not going to like this. I didn't. Nobody I've shown it to has. But the designers who thought it up, James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, are provocateurs, so they don't mind if you hate what they've done.
So here it is: meat-eating furniture.
Let's begin with their digital wall clock, which doesn't need a battery or a plug because it gets its energy from eating flies.
[youtube]MsJ6B3y_Afw[/youtube]
This carnivorous clock ("8 dead flies makes it work for about 12 days," says co-designer Professor Chris Melhuish, of Bristol Robotics) is just a prototype. It doesn't catch enough flies to power the motor on top and the digital clock. But this is just a first step.
Complete Story at NPR.org
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You're not going to like this. I didn't. Nobody I've shown it to has. But the designers who thought it up, James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, are provocateurs, so they don't mind if you hate what they've done.
So here it is: meat-eating furniture.
Let's begin with their digital wall clock, which doesn't need a battery or a plug because it gets its energy from eating flies.
[youtube]MsJ6B3y_Afw[/youtube]
This carnivorous clock ("8 dead flies makes it work for about 12 days," says co-designer Professor Chris Melhuish, of Bristol Robotics) is just a prototype. It doesn't catch enough flies to power the motor on top and the digital clock. But this is just a first step.
Complete Story at NPR.org