Surfing Robot Tracks Great White Sharks 12
ackthpt writes "A network of fixed buoys and solar powered surfing robots called Wave Gliders are set to track Great White Sharks in the Pacific, off the California coast near San Francisco, between Monterey Bay and Tomales Point. According to PhysOrg, 'The self-propelled wave and solar-powered glider is part of a new network of data receivers on fixed buoys will pick up signals from acoustic tags on animals passing within 1,000 feet and transmit the data to a research team on shore, led by Stanford University Marine Sciences Prof. Barbara Block.' Related to the project is 'Shark Net,' a new iOS app 'available free of charge at the Apple app store, created by Dr. Block and her colleagues with developers from TOPP, EarthNC and Gaia GPS to enable a direct, personal connection between the public and wild marine animals and to raise public awareness of the ocean wilderness teeming with life just off North America's West Coast.'"
goddamned bait-and-switch! (Score:4, Informative)
Surfing Robot Tracks Great White Sharks
that [physorg.com] was nowhere near as cool as I imagined it.
Re:goddamned bait-and-switch! (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, this other one from today was way awesomer.
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/17/arduino-controlled-shark-detection-system/ [makezine.com]