r/tech • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 21d ago

Award-winning tech uses cyborg mollusks to monitor water pollution

https://newatlas.com/environment/molluscan-eye-mollusk-water-pollution/
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u/LeftyMcliberal 21d ago

This is kind of old news… like I was aware of mollusks being used to monitor water quality 5 years ago.

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u/QueenLaQueefaRt 21d ago

They just wanted to say cyborg mollusk… for the clicks.

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u/bongslingingninja 21d ago

This is the first I’m hearing about it. Really appreciate reposts like this!

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u/FlatHatJack 21d ago

Thank you Rooster teeth for that nugget of knowledge.

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u/GlitteringHighway 21d ago

There’s a city or area in Poland that uses sea creatures to monitor water quality.

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u/pamnfaniel 21d ago

They use assimilation tubules to inject nano probes into the water… upon where they float to other individual mollusks, infiltrating their tissues to create a larger collective of cyborg mollusks in the immediate area… the new mollusks are then linked, and all behave as one large unified pollution monitoring sensor across vast distances of ocean.

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u/Baronvonkludge 21d ago

Kind sir it’s a mollusk i’ve found,

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

And it only takes further pollution to make it happen! Fuck yeah

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u/aquanaut343 21d ago

Biomechanoid mollusk

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u/Jert01 21d ago

Mollusks - “Shits bad man”

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u/evolvedspice 21d ago

Slow day huh?