Ingmar Riedel-Kruse at Stanford has created a series of videogames which involve controlling REAL paramecia with electricity and chemicals, to make them part of simple arcade games. Why? Other than the pure joy of cruelty, "Riedel-Kruse says his larger ambition is to find ways to make the games useful, perhaps in the context of science education, or even as tools for crowd-sourced research projects." The link has several videos that must be seen to be believed. I predict games that involve all the things living in the finger grease on your iPhone. Thanks to Scott Landsman for the tip!
That's pretty scary to think where they can take this. I don't like the fact they labeled it a video game. As I am sure the gaming industry will take a hit on condoning cruelty. On the scientific side of this I think its interesting and should be left to experiment and thats it.
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