Butterflies sorta creep me out. First, they start out as another bug and then they cocoon themselves. Who does that? And just take a look at this butterfly egg, it’s borderline alien looking.
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The ChouChou Robotic Butterfly is just like a real butterfly, except it can live forever. Or at least until its battery runs out. You won’t even know the difference, just watch it fly.
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I’m sure this robotic swallowtail butterfly serves a scientific purpose. But whatever contribution it’s making to biomimetics is far outweighed by the elegant beauty of this slow-motion video of it in action. Hold me closer, tiny dragon.
Even though the future obviously revolves around credit cards and online transfers, a team of British scientists have developed a way for banknotes to be harder to forge – using iridescent butterfly wings as inspiration.
By the Holy circumcised foreskin of baby Jesus! What in the name of all that is creepy and filmed by Roger Corman is this? Larvae hatching and butterflies flying in space? If I were an astronaut, I’d be freaking out.
