Hack a Cockroach With Your Phone

In Mexico City, while investigating maker spaces and innovation, Doc North gets a tip about a guy implanting electrodes into cockroaches so they can be remotely controlled with an iPhone. You can even do it yourself at home with a complete kit.
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Backyard Brains

[WiseGuy]

The title sounds like clickbait. It's not clickbait.

[GoldphishAnimation]

Everybody, listen up. Bout to drop some truth here.

1. cockroaches are not conscious of anything
2. No nerve endings = no pain
neurons don't count, people play the goddamn violin during brain surgery.
3. What is happening here is exactly like what a cockroach would feel in the real world. No pain. "It's like bumping into a wall."
4. It's a cockroach. It's either this or a shoe to the everything.

Now, continue with this knowledge!
Side note: I was mildly unsettled by the rigging process, but please see #2.

[halbrown]

This could open up the possibility of real life avatars

[ColinCarnevaleCarneyteen]

cool but wired at the same time. like what you said " as a scientist I'm intrigued but as a human its creepy".

[sarahpolcz]

Interesting that the cockroach experiences being “controlled” in making a turn by being led to feel it has just bumped into an object, then deciding itself to make a turn. Makes this seem less like turning a roach into a robot (as it was billed) and more like gaslighting the roach...Kafkaesque!

[hypermetalsonic]

Why are people getting bent out of shape over this? It's a fucking insect

[jarjar]

LOL at the people saying this is animal abuse, we kill a huge amount of these bugs every year (I don't know the exact amount and don't want to make myself seem stupid by guessing) its not like there making them feel like there being eaten alive, and besides I doubt insects have a "consciousness" anyways if they did I would have almost definitely not been born a human and instead born as an insect do to the amount of insects there are in realation to humans (I know that's not a very scientific way to look at it but it makes sense in my mind at least)

[ShotsOfAwe]

The future of technology is cloudy. Ethics should always be a part of the question. Great video!

[xSmokeClan]

how do you not have way more subs or a TV show? this shits awesome

[The.ExAver]

The future is going to be a hell of a trip

[ShaunPPatterson]

about time those nasty things became useful lol

[jamesdriggers]

they've been using electric shock to contract muscles for a long time. They make a belt that claims to give you rock hard abs while you sit and watch tv or at your desk at work.

[bijitakiji]

No Cockroach were harmed in this video.

[AhmedSalimBD]

Although I'm not fan of cockroaches. But this seems really unethical. 

[jonathanconner]

This is scary, imagine if someone upgrade this technology to a certain point to where they could control humans. I know it’s unlikely, but the possibility still terrifies me.

[solosailor]

Bringing million dollar research to millions of Makers is an epic endeavour !!

[saltyjo]

Cockroaches have no rights. Please do more experiments on roaches, mosquitoes and flies.

[edvardnorge]

Interesting! I'd love to learn more. Please keep your videos coming. :) 

[goparetraitors]

Awesome I want to get a kit. !!! So cool

[samwilliams]

I've seen this! Really interesting