The hamster ball: not only safest mode of travel for your pet, but also an interestingly simple vehicle that is easily operated by an animal. But what happens when one takes that basic idea and changes the parameters a little? . Why, you end up with something absurd, like an EEE-PC piloted hamster ball, or a bank of (painfully slow) robotic spiders. Or some crazy-ass fish interactions. Better yet: a cockroach-controlled robot (note the ping-pong ball steering wheel).

But a search for animal-cyborg relations can yield some disturbing results. On the other end of the spectrum from the hamster ball are neural implants. On paper, they sound neato (cyborgs? fuck yes!), but seeing them in action (in both monkeys and moths) is incredibly creepy. And, of course, there is the ever-present threat of a Badnik uprising. Oh, those poor woodland creatures.