Cyborg Insect Spies

What if the next bug in your ear is a spy? The U.S. Military is funding the creation of these insect spies. In an article written by Fiona MacRae at http://tinyurl.com/25zab9, she explains that these insects are implanted with electrodes by wires through their nerves. They will be useful for the government to do their spying.

This isn't exactly new... as Jessica Marshall explains in her article titled "The Cyborg Animal Spies Hatching in the Lab" , José Delgado at Yale University was the creator of the first cyborg animal bck in 1950. Delgado experimented with bulls, even getting in the ring with them, letting them charge, then, with the flip of a switch, the bull stops just before he is about to charge. In 2002, the technology was revisited when The University of New York Health Science Center in Brooklyn created a cyborg rat. According to Marshall, this rat was able to be controlled remotely by humans.

Although this does not seem very moral even on insects in my opinion, I REALLY hope the government never deems this as a way to control unruly humans!


Picture found at:
http://tinyurl.com/25zab9

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19726461.800-the-cyborg-animal-spies-hatching-in-the-lab.html