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Looks a bit nasty but this is a fantastic demonstration of electronics and computers interacting directly with an animal. Will this put an end to designing tiny drone spy planes? 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. It’s the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said the lead researcher, who hopes the work will have “practical use” in the future. In the United States, similar work on animals has been of interest to the military. For example, the pigeon news follows the equally amusing animal tale about the Pentagon’s attempts at creating remote controlled shark spies. Like the Chinese pigeon experiment, the sharks had brain implants used to control their movements.”
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March 14th, 2007
That is rather disturbing. If they succeed in making this technology viable, then they could easily control humans.
It just seems like we are going _too_ far.
Reminds me of Alice at the end of Resident Evil 2.
March 14th, 2007
omg… what is that??? they really left the head open??? what if they try that with humans???
March 14th, 2007
scary….
March 14th, 2007
I thought the same thing about the open head… At least place a cover over the brain before snapping pictures!
March 14th, 2007
I, for one, welcome our mushy-headed electropigeon overlords.
March 14th, 2007
Please, post two or three news soon, every time I enter in hackedgadgets I have to see that disgusting picture of the pigeon with it’s brains coming out
besides we haver trained carrier pigeons for centuries, this technology does not contribute anything new and it raises serious moral doubts
March 14th, 2007
Creepy.
also, i acknowledge the Vice City reference made by cb.
March 14th, 2007
Maybe these will replace remote controlled airplanes as a hobby
March 14th, 2007
Strap on a couple of fricken lazers and that’d be a sweet toy!
March 14th, 2007
It would be far more complicated to do this toa human. We have far more complicated brains. The intriguing part to me is that it could be done in reverse. Think about controlling something with just a thought. Anyone ever read the Reality Dysfunction series by Peter Hamilton? Would be neat.
March 14th, 2007
Hey L0rd_D4rk, just squint your eyes as the page loads, it just looks like a funny cap then… It will be off the front page in no time. Until then some readers may need some of those airline bags close at hand.
March 15th, 2007
Really, please remove that picture. That is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on the net for years. And yes I have seen allot!!! Makes me want to puke and cry at the same time…
March 15th, 2007
This is terrible. Those things are alive. We have enough technology to emulate life and given time, better AI. I see no reason to take the will out of an animal. I also agree that using this t control humans is quite possible.
March 16th, 2007
thanks
March 17th, 2007
That does seem rather cruel, but intriguing none the less.
March 17th, 2007
Wow, that really is a bit disturbing. Sure, I’m all for a brain-to-computer interface for things like memory enhancement (store off your images as photos or whatever), but I don’t imagine something as grotesque as this — both in visuals and what it does to the unfortunate bird. This was innevitable, though, after the remote control cockroaches frm a while back.
I’m not even sure what we’re looking at here, either. Just what is sticking out of the poor birds head? Not sure I really want to know….
March 21st, 2007
I found the fact that someone could think this up and consider it acceptable more repulsive than the actual physical truth. It just shows that there are no boundaries to what people will do in the interest of ’science’. The act of hacking electrodes into the mind of a creature, however small, is not progress it’s Victorian quack science.
April 9th, 2007
cool blog!
April 10th, 2007
Umm, this is somewhat sadistic, but cool none the less.
April 28th, 2007
[…] If the remote controlled pigeon post turned your stomach you may want to stop reading about this project now… Noahw and Canida have made a computer mouse using a real dead mouse. “Obtain a small travel-size (hardware) mouse. This one is a wired mouse that is way to small to use comfortably every day, but perfect for going inside of a mouse. Obtain a similarly-sized (wetware) mouse. These are commonly available fresh or frozen from pet stores, or any other place that sells reptile food. It’s easier to fit a small object into a large mouse than a large object into a small mouse, so err on the side of caution. You can always fill extra space with cotton balls. If you’ve got an optical (hardware) mouse, make sure to choose a pale-furred (wetware) mouse for lightest skin pigment - this will be important later.” […]
May 17th, 2007
I wrote some interesting info about “mind control” harassment by neighborhood activists back in 2001. It is in some archives. To find it Google: “Von Kidd” + “mind control”. In the results the one at buffalo.edu is heavily edited, the one at Topica directory is not.
The info about how the perps hide their signal is incorrect. Not all the links work anymore, use the link’s topic as a search term. All the info from the links and more -including reliable, verifiable documentation from the media- is at: WantToKnow.Info. On their topic bar click mind control.
In Freedom and Liberty,
Von Kidd
May 18th, 2007
Thanks for the post.
May 20th, 2007
is this real?
May 21st, 2007
It sure is real!
June 20th, 2007
[…] 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.” - http://hackedgadgets.com/ […]
July 5th, 2007
THIS IS WRONG
July 7th, 2007
If the animals are used in the proper way like searching and rescue people, I will agree. For example, it is very common to use dogs to find the victims trapped in the collapsed building. Why not we also remote control rats to look for victims underground? - http://www.private-aircraft.biz
July 9th, 2007
Dear Sir,
i need a remote cntrol flying gadget with mini camera and mic.
please send me the details of the available products.
regards,
Fasih
November 27th, 2007
This is sick. The people who do this are sick. I agree that animals should be used in scientific experiments sometimes, such as for medicinal purposes (e.g. drugs testing), however in these cases, it does seem neccessary. I see absolutely no reason for this, it is pointless, and the scientists did it out of interest, nothing more. THIS IS WRONG, and i am proud to say that this would never happen in Britain!
January 5th, 2008
No surprise this is by Chinese scientists. Gotta love a country where you can buy 4 year old prostitutes and butcher dogs and cats for restaurant use. Up with animal rights…
April 7th, 2008
I think you need to do a pigeon like the dead-mouse/computer-mouse but with a hobby helicopter. then you can race the pigeon like in the redbull air races.