{"id":3035,"date":"2009-07-02T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2009-07-02T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T08:00:46","slug":"feed-me-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3035","title":{"rendered":"Feed Me, Seymour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/06\/29\/carnivorous-clock-eats-bugs-counts-down-to-doomsday\/\">Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This prototype time-piece from UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau traps insects on flypaper stretched across its roller system before depositing them into a vat of bacteria. The ensuing chemical reaction, or &#8220;digestion,&#8221; is transformed into power that keeps the rollers rollin&#8217; and the LCD clock ablaze.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So when the machines become sentient, they will already be carnivorous.  All we can do now to compound the problem is to make sure they have a taste for human flesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnivorous Clock eats bugs, begins doomsday countdown This prototype time-piece from UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau traps insects on flypaper stretched across its roller system before depositing them into a vat of bacteria. The ensuing chemical reaction, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,53,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-tech","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}