edgore: April 2005 Archives

Totally awesome. A group of (mad) scientists have found that they can tear the heads off of flies then use lasers to stimulate the exposed nerve endings and control the fly - even making it, well, fly.

Check out the super creepy video here.

I am also taking bets on how long it will be before they try it with monkeys, and eventually, children.

LINK (via bOING bOING )

In what may lead to the most terrifying grad-student sex toy ever, Glasgow Interactive Systems Group and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in the UK have developed a a fiberglass model of the rear of a cow containing a PHANToM haptic feedback device. In other words - a high tech vibrator. Supposedly it's for teaching students how to do bovine rectal palpation, but you know how kids are.

LINK (via Pasta & Vinegar )