We Make Money Not Art shows that reality is just as fucking excellently weird as fiction:
Seith Weiner has created a vehicule piloted by a fish and propelled by 2 drive wheels, each driven by its own servomotor. The fish steers the vessel by its movements. A camera above the cockpit tracks the movements of the Terranaut (that’s the name of the fish-pilot). Its location is then wirelessly transmitted to a remote processing station where the data is converted into motion commands and transmitted back to the motion controller of the vehicle.
Apparently one can see the Terranuat in action at Exit in NYC, through Dec 23, 2005 (might be worth a trip?). If you follow the WMMNA link, check out the Roachbot and the Augmented Fish Reality posts. DO NOT follow the link to the webserver-in-a-frog. You have been warned.
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