One last post before I go to sleep. Here is a really interesting article in Wired magazine that talks about how attributes we normally assign to living organisms are showing up in modern technologies:

http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/machines.html

There is also this article about micro-machines that have a metal skeleton but real organic material which grew over it to form living robots:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4181197.stm

And, finally, scientists have successfully isolated Gene Simmons:

(note: joke stolen from “The Onion”)

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