China makes cyborg pigeons
Published by Kyso Kisaen February 28th, 2007 in Punkass!Damn, that may be the greatest blog post title ever.
Anyway, China does indeed have remote-control pigeons with implants in their brains.
The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon’s brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply with their commands.
If you want to see gory pictures of exposed pigeon brain with chips stuck in them, the path starts here.
And here I thought pushing electronic signals through cockroach leg ganglia was scary/cool. Now I wanna go back to school and study biology again. Dangit, China.
Try it on humans! Try it on humans!