Meat-Eating Furniture

[Recursion]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/02/07/133432897/meat-eating-furniture?sc=fb&cc=fp

I'm not sure what to think about this.

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.

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and, more ominously, a coffee table littered with cheese bits that attracts mice who are ushered up a table leg and then guillotined by rotating blade-looking hole on top. Auger and Loizeaux made a video about the mouse consuming coffee table, but it made me queasy.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

1. Sounds awesome.

[sufrommich]

2. How much is the table that decapitates mice? I need one of

those.

[Blue_Tires]

5. instead of 'furniture', he should have called it 'art'

and made about a jillion dollars....:evilgrin:

[Maine-ah]

3. I think it's pretty cool

flies, mice....I prefer a humane way to get rid of the mice, but it's a start. Perhaps instead of something that kills the mice, they could put a humane trap in it.

[NV Whino]

4. I love this quote

"I agree with the fellow who wrote their London-based blog to say:

With the exponential growth of robotic technology and AI it seems tempting fate to give robots a taste of organic matter as an energy source. This is something not even postulated by the Terminator movies, that the robots would eat us for energy. If you're going to make eating robots at least make them vegetarian only.

Yes, you may wonder what happened to that fern that used to be on the window sill, but you wouldn't have to worry about your cat."