Saturday, July 15, 2006

Human v. Insect

It's very hard to think of a practical use for this, but a clever grad student named Wim van Eck has developed a Pac-man game that a cricket can play. The cricket, motivated at appropriate times by its dislike for vibrations, transits a Pac-Man maze rigged with sensors and gadgets to vibrate the floor wherever a Pac-Man "ghost" would appear. There's no word in the article about how insect and humans fare in a head-to-antennas matchup.

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