RSSPigeon plays video game
Add this to the long list of things pigeons can do, but probably shouldn't... Play video games.
Lego Birdcam.
LEGO lady feeding the LEGO pigeons.
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Aug 2, 2008 09:15 AM
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Posted by: Dave Chatting on August 2, 2008 at 3:15 PM |
Reminds me of Ben Resner's InterPet Explorer - http://web.media.mit.edu/~benres/parrot/Interpet1.pdf - that was with parrots
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Posted by: Shadyman on August 2, 2008 at 10:51 PM |
"...Now what did we learn from this?"
*raises hand*
"Pigeons have A.D.D."
| Posted by: john.goewert.myopenid.com on August 3, 2008 at 5:20 AM |
Actually, this isn't all that new. Back in the 1940's, the US tested pidgeon guided bombs that they basically trained the pidgeon to peck at the ship on the screen and it would control the bombs. Surprisingly, it worked, but the project was cancelled. The main reasoning was the advent of radio control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
It was also on Weird Weapons of the Allies on the Discovery Channel, along with bat bombs and B52 bombs.
| Posted by: ionymous on August 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM |
Looks like the pigeon is just pecking at the screen.
Just because a video game is on the screen doesn't mean the pigeon is controlling it.
It might think it is seeing food.
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