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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Electronic Venus Flytrap devours pesky flies


The buzzing of the bees sounds cool in the Disney cartoons but the noise is sure annoying when a housefly tries to nest in your ears or better still try feasting on your food. A handy albeit "frivolous" gadget is The Fly Catcher. Borrowing the concept from the Venus flytrap, the unit comes with a non-toxic bait (hidden inside the mouth of the trap) to attract the bug. The unsuspecting bug ventures to the mouth of the trap and triggers off the sensor, which in turn snaps the jaws shut to kill it. But what's really funny in the whole exercise is that after its tasty meal, the flytrap reopens its mouth for the next bug after letting out a satisfying burp.

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