Many readers sent us links to the story about Chinese scientists developing pigeons whose flight can be controlled remotely. The best coverage may be Wired's, both because they link to the English language version of the original Peoples Daily Online release, and because of the (disturbing) photos. The birds can be commanded to fly left, right, up, or down. Reader KDan writes, "A number of obvious uses jump out to me... the remote-controlled pigeons will finally allow us to create an efficient implementation of RFC 1149 and RFC 2549."
This reminded me of the numerous usages invented using remote controled animals:
- Google pigeon rank technology
- State University of New York remote controled rats
- WWII US army bat bombs
Well after all this I discovered that we got one step closer to all these cyborgs stories in the SF litterature, and I am actually really impressed by the state of these research (and preparing plans to take over the world using 2 crazy remote controled mouses).
Ok, I am working too much, I am taking a break.
