A Vending Machine? For Crows?
Our commander-in-chief Graham Hill, who is currently schmoozing it up with the intelligentsia at TED, just sent us a mysterious missive from his BlackBerry: “Makes vending machines to give crows peanut in return for Crow makes hook with wire. Amazing vid.”
We were able to decrypt his message only with help from Boing Boing. The gist? A tech hacker named Joshua Klein has constructed a vending machine that teaches crows to deposit coins in exchange for some juicy peanuts. Klein discovered that the smart and adaptable avians would place the nuts on the road so that cars would run…
February 29 2008 05:02 pm | Environment
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