Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 6:29pm
This colony of flies is one pretty tech savvy bunch, since the bugs can send out their own messages on Twitter.
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Monday, June 29, 2009 - 2:06am
Shades of Little Shop of Horrors' Audrey with this LED clock from Brit designers Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger. Part flycatcher, part timepiece, the gizmo harvests insects on a sticky roller covered in flypaper, before dropping the corpses into a...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 12:58pm
The Fly Goodbye is a shotgun-like apparatus for ridding your general vicinity of pesky insects. Rather than firing bullets, when you pull the trigger the Fly Goodbye will suck air in, including any bugs that happen to inhabit said air....
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 10:22am
Fruit flies are magnificent flying machines, and here’s a high-speed video to prove it. Not only can the little buggers react to your flyswatting attacks within 100 thousandths of a second, their micro-brains are smart enough to plan an...
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 5:55am
This funny-looking machine is a small battery powered vehicle that motors its way around a New York art gallery. Its course is directed and steered entirely by flies. Yes, that plastic bubble is filled with large houseflies, along with...
