Carnivorous clock that tells time by killing bugs!Byline: ANI London, July 3 (ANI): Two artists in London have come up with a bizarre invention in the form of a 'carnivorous digital clock', which catches bugs, then dissolves their bodies to create electrolytes to power itself. A strip of sticky flypaper moves in a loop over the surface of the unit, much like a treadmill or moving sidewalk moving sidewalk n. A conveyor for transporting pedestrians along a level passageway. . When an insect lands on the paper, it's trapped and slowly moves toward its final destination, a drop-off into a bath full of carnivorous car·niv·o·rous adj. 1. Of or relating to carnivores. 2. Flesh-eating or predatory: a carnivorous bird. 3. microbes that break down its body. "As soon as there is a predatory robot in the room the scene becomes loaded with potential," artist James Auger auger (ô`gər): see drill. auger Tool (or bit) used with a carpenter's brace for drilling holes, usually in wood. It looks like a corkscrew and produces extremely clean holes, almost regardless of how large the bit is. told New Scientist magazine. "A fly buzzing around the window suddenly becomes an actor in a live game of life, as the viewer half wills it towards the robot and half hopes for it to escape," he added. Auger and his collaborative partner Jimmy Loizeau have also built a coffee table that catches and kills mice, and a light that lures buzzing moths This is an incomplete list of species of Lepidoptera that are commonly known as moths. Large and dramatic moth species
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