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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

RoboRoach Lets Kids Turn Real Cockroaches Into iPhone Controlled Cyborgs

Robots are pretty cool, but have you ever wanted to create your own iPhone controlled cyborg? Backyard Brains is banking that a lot of kids are interested in cyborg technology and neuroscience (ethical dilemmas be damned),
so after three years of R&D they’ve come up with the RoboRoach – a small electronic surgery kit that lets you turn a real-life cockroach, into an iPhone-controlled cyborg for a few minutes.

The kit comes with a backpack that contains a battery and receiver you superglue to the cockroach after sanding down a patch of shell. You have to jab a groundwire into the cockroaches thorax, and then after that you carefully trim the antenna so you can stick some small electrodes onto both of them and receive signals from your iPhone. Don’t worry, the iPhone app and the cockroaches come free with the $99 kit, so you don’t have to go hunting for some behind your supermarket’s dumpster.

Obviously the kit also comes with a lot of ethical dilemmas. A spokeswoman from the Humane Society University of Washington said they hate the idea of kids knipping off the limps of a creature, slapping a neuron controller on its back, and then taking over its freewill for a few minutes, regardless of whether its done in the holy name of science or not.

Brackyard Brains says that the cockroaches can still go off and have normal cockroach lives after they’ve been put through the ringer. They’ll still be able to eat and mate, and the surgery is supposed to be painless thanks to the ice bath you dunk them in before the operation.

One bioethicist told Science Now that the RoboRoach is as horrible as the Imperius Curse from Harry Potter. Of course, telling kids that they can now do the Imperius Curse IRL will just make them even more giddy to torturue experiment with cockroach neurons and then figure out how to do it on other bugs. I can already hear the guttural shrieks from moms everywhere as their kids raise their iPhones and say, “Look ma’ I’m a wizard!” while their RoboRoach minions march across the kitchen floor.

Data source: CultofMac (By Buster Heine) [via BI]
Origine source: backyardbrains

Top iPad Apps of October 2014 for Kids

Your kid doesnt allow you to work at home, when you are busy in an important task. We bring some fun loving top educational iPad apps for your kids that will keep them engaged for a long time and allow you to finish your important task.

Balloony Word

Balloony Word is just a like the classic game Hangman, but if you dont prefer the idea of hanging a man for guessing a few words, then this game is for you. This game helps your kid to learn spellings and improve their vocabulary skills.

Free | Download from iTunes

Also See: 7 Cool Applications To Amaze Your Android & iPhone

Elmo Loves ABCs for iPad

Your kid is definitely going to love this app. It plays songs and videos for a long time, color changing pages and letters from A to Z helps your kid to grasp the alphbets easily. If your kid loves to learn ABCs, then he will definitely love to learn 123s. Elmo plays it all.

$4.99 | Download from iTunes

Drawing Pad

This app has been the iPad app of the week in 12 countries. If you are an art lover, then you can explore this app with all your creativity as this app is a mobile art studio for all ages. This app provides you all the necessary drawing tools such as markers, crayons, paint brushes, stickers, colored pencils and more.

$1.99 | Download from iTunes

Also See: Top Free Android Apps to Earn Cash Rewards

Fish School HD

This is an award winning app that teaches your kid letter, numbers, shapes, colors and more. Your kid will have a wonderful underwater experience with 8 different educational activities. Simply touch, tap and drag the fish to see the colorful changes and funny things happening within the sea.

$1.99 | Download from iTunes

Pet Bingo

This is a mathematical app for your kids to learn and enhance their skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This app can be helpful for your kindergarten kid till the fourth grade one. It helps your kid in visually learning basic mathematical functions. Its like learning maths alongwith lots of fun.

$1.99 | Download from iTunes

Also See: Best Traveling Android Apps of July 2014

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About Anna Harris:
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