DARPA harvests energy from cyborg beetles to keep them brainwashed

[shian]

[quote=Engadget]
[img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/cyborginsects.jpg[/img]
Beetles packing cybernetic implants that control their brains make a cheaper and more useful micro-air-vehicle than a fully robotic one -- but due to the weight of the battery packs required, development has been slow. Now a DARPA-funded team at the University of Michigan thinks it's eliminated that problem. By attaching piezoelectric generators to each wing, the researchers can harvest the energy generated in flight and use it to juice the mind-control circuits. At present, the system generates about half the energy the team thinks it can produce, as innovations in ceramic production of the miniature devices should solve that. An experimental robotics project in competition with a cyborg one? This all feels a bit too RoboCop for us.[/quote]

[url]http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/darpa-harvests-energy-from-cyborg-beetles-to-keep-them-brainwash/[/url]

[Hollywood SN]

DARPA God damn you're awesome.

[mastermaul]

Darts at a wall R&D.

[Awesomecaek]

My roach is augmented.

[Last or First]

Harvesting energy from the beetles and using some of it to brainwash them?

It's the Matrix.
With beetles.
Woah.

[dedo678]

I hope DARPA never changes

[Jmir 54]

DARPA seems like a fun company

[OvB]

[QUOTE=Jmir 54;32071163]DARPA seems like a fun [b]Agency[/b][/QUOTE]

All darpa did was fund this. Cool nonetheless.

[ewitwins]

Mind-control?!

Damn DARPA, you scary.

[Lowland]

Exterminator 2: Rise of the Beetles

[Contag]

WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF CYBORG MINDCONTROLLED BEETLES

i seriously can't comprehend this shit
i think 'awe' is the only applicable term

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=Contag;32072001]WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF CYBORG MINDCONTROLLED BEETLES

i seriously can't comprehend this shit
i think 'awe' is the only applicable term[/QUOTE]

As far as I know, the "Mind control" is little more than a bit more elaborate electronic rein.

Although, the beetles don't really have much mind to have controlled in any more sophisticated way.

[blubafoon]

won't someone please think of the [del]children[/del] beetles!?

[Coolkiddo]

Oh my god, I'm glad we already have the future in this time period

[video=youtube;U1sZ0ek7LLk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1sZ0ek7LLk&feature=related[/video]

[TerabyteS_]

They never asked for this.

[blubafoon]

Could probably make a reference to Harbinger and the Collectors here.

oh well

[_maverick_]

FUCK YES SCIENCE!

[Ghost656]

WHAT IF THEY BEGIN BRAIN-WASHING POEPLE IN THEIR SLEEP?

[Miskav]

[QUOTE=Satane;32083402]what if shemales rape you in your sleep?

every day?[/QUOTE]

It wouldn't be rape.

[phlexiglass]

Like i said in the other thread on this topic

inb4 FEMA augmented beetle concentration camps

[Lebowski]

[QUOTE=Satane;32083402]what if shemales rape you in your sleep?

every day?[/QUOTE]
i'll take eight