Namco’s Namja Land food amusement park will sell you some chocolate beetles for your Valentine sweetheart. 4,500 yen will get you a set of four: one Hercules beetle, one stag beetle, one male rhinocerous beetle, and one female rhinocerous beetle. Aww, that’s very sweet. [source]
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This is just so cool: Researchers at the university controlled the movement of beetle wings and some other parts using radio signals sent to the six electrodes on its brain and muscles. They equipped the beetle with a module incorporating a circuit to send signals to the electrodes, wireless circuit, microcontroller and battery. The university [...]
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