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Carnivorous Clock Eats Bugs 197

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @12:37PM from the little-office-of-horrors dept.

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.

Comment MS buys up cable (Score 1) 61

by RichardW on Monday June 14, 1999 @10:14PM (#1850975) Attached to: Qwest bids $55 billion for US West, Frontier

>Pretty soon a handful of companies will own all
> our forms of media disribution, everything we
> read, hear, and see will be at the behest of
> our corporate masters. Microsoft and AOL are
> tugging it out in the high speed access/cable
> tv arena.
Oh yes. Especially in the UK. MS are currently taking stakes in a large proportion of our cable operators (anyone know what that proportion is?). We thought having BT as a monopoly wasn't a good thing, but I'm sure we haven't seen anything yet....

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