You know that bug flying in or around your house?

[Are_grits_groceries]

Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance

http://brightcove.newscientist.com/services/player/bcpid1873822884?bctid=42939806001
Beetles can be made to respond to radio remote control

By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command. The cyborg insects were created at the University of California, Berkeley, by engineers led by Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz as part of a programme funded by the Pentagon's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The project's goal is to create fully remote-controlled insects able to perform tasks such as looking for survivors after a disaster, or acting as the ultimate spy.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17895-freeflying-cyborg-insects-steered-from-a-distance.html

Get your swatters ready!
And as technology makes smaller and smaller parts, the more they can do. They are probably working on a mechanical
one right now.

[Barack_America]

1. Insecticons!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. They'd better not send those insect cyborgs to my house.

My cats will eat them.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. They will probably add tiny armaments

to repel threats.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. On the upside, when they come to the door looking for their cyborgs....

....you can ask them to deliver the video to the vet so they can analyze the GI tract of your cats for any undiagnosed medical problem. It is like getting a free endoscopy of the upper GI tract.

[FirstLight]

5. DUzy!

:rofl:

[myrna minx]

6. "There's an app for that. "

:D

[lunatica]

7. cyborg cockroaches