Institute for Networked Animals

After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.

WASHINGTON, DC — An effort to describe the diversity of birds led to one of the first modern color systems.

Sheep on the Faroe Islands — a small archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean — are helping to map the remote island's countryside as part of a project dubbed Sheep View 360.

An art contest has scientists painting with ... bacteria.

Phillip the duck lost both of his feet to frostbite, so a middle school technology teacher and his class 3D-printed him some new flippers.

Cat Exploit is a project focussed on creating an independent and free WiFi network using cats (so-called Server Entities) and related species carrying a minified version of a wardriving-server. While roaming through streets and backyards of the urban area, they tap into open and badly secured WiFi networks in order to repeat and spread the signal through nearby Server Entities for everyone. The range of usage is indeed very broad and depends on the "needs" of the users, reaching from general parasitic and almost restriction-free internet access to abusive and criminal driven activities. Generally speaking, Cat Exploit takes place in a legal grey zone, though facing and criticizing outdated laws like the punishment of hotspot owners for users’ copyright violations. Moreover it is demonstrating and exploiting these weaknesses.

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