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[Hergiswi]

Some find cockroaches repulsive, others think they're adorable, and still others see them as an opportunity to make a statement about the relationship between humans and social media. Artist Brittany Ransom outfitted a cockroach with a little backpack called RoboRoach that could control its movement by stimulating its antennae. Then, Ransom hooked the system up to Twitter, and allowed users to control the roach by sending tweets marked with the hashtags #TweetRoachLeft and #TweetRoachRight.

http://www.theverge....overstimulation

I have to say, this is the most unique article I've come across all day. Has anybody else heard of this?

[Koh]

That picture scared me half to death....I really hate roaches.

[Russ]

The goal, Ransom said, was to see if the roach would learn to block out Twitter's overstimulation in the same way the humans do

And yet the article doesn't say if he did.

It's a really interesting experiment actually. The twitter part especially, it's something I wouldn't have thought of. And I really want to know what the results of it were now.

[Hergiswi]

And yet the article doesn't say if he did.

It's a really interesting experiment actually. The twitter part especially, it's something I wouldn't have thought of. And I really want to know what the results of it were now.

You know, I was so distracted by the absurdity that I didn't even realize that. I wonder if she just hasn't compiled the results yet.

[XMSB]

It must have taken a lot of work to attach that mind-control chip to that roach's back. And how that roach was being controlled via Twitter, sounds like this person was taking mind-control to the extreme. By the way, I think it's pretty cool how those guys in that Youtube video controlled that roach remotely with that Roboroach technology.

That picture scared me half to death....I really hate roaches.

Yeah, I don't really like roaches either, especially not the ones that are considered household pests! But the roach in that article appears to be a Death's Head Roach.

[Russ]

It must have taken a lot of work to attach that mind-control chip to that roach's back. And how that roach was being controlled via Twitter, sounds like this person was taking mind-control to the extreme. By the way, I think it's pretty cool how those guys in that Youtube video controlled that roach remotely with that Roboroach technology.

Well, it's not exactly mind control. It's just stimulating it's antenna, making the roach thing something's there, so it turns. It's like if there was a machine that made us see a brick wall to the right so we think "Oh, better turn left to avoid it."

[Daniel]

This is by far the strangest experiment I have ever read about. Also I too am interested in seeing the results.

I'm not find of roaches but I'm certainly not scared of them, I used to catch them on the porch and feed them to my tarantula. Watching a giant spider pounce on a roach is very entertaining.

[DarkFlameWolf]

I'm not find of roaches but I'm certainly not scared of them, I used to catch them on the porch and feed them to my tarantula. Watching a giant spider pounce on a roach is very entertaining.

Quoted for awesomeness.

[Daniel]

Quoted for awesomeness.

Come on you can at least fix the typo I made.