Insect controlled robots

Obviously someone’s seen one of those hamster balls and decided that it would make a nice lampshade, but with flies instead of a hamster, which is fair enough… one of the lampshades at my place is constantly filling up with moths etc, so why not get them to do something useful?

I once saw this bit of art in the National Gallery in New Zealand where someone had created a glass cube about the size of a shower, put a tractor seat in it, then put an entire bee-hive on the tractor seat… with tube to the outside world so the bees could go out and do bee stuff.

The fly thing is a bit like that, but it moves around and would probably be easier to live with… but not as easy to live with than… a picture of it say.

Ok, this one isn’t so much an insect controlled robot, as an jewelled dragonfly that flutters its wings when you turn a handle. One day these things will be the future of modern warfare. They’ll flit about the place spying on people and poisoning them.

Ok, this isn’t really an insect controlled robot either – rather a robot controlled insect. You could connect it up to one of those psychic hats I was on about earlier and use it for all sorts of devious purposes.

Actually, come to think of it, I can’ think of a single non-devious purpose that this could be put to… but maybe someone else can, and maybe that’s the point. The cross-pollination of ideas. It’s a flower thing.

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Brazillian Hamster Balls.

New Zealand Hamster Balls:

Hamster ball painting :

Ok, this post should really have been about hamster balls. Whatever.