Monday, March 3, 2008

Flytrap Machine

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Who: Scientists from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

What: The Venus flytrap plant could help electronics in the future.

When: December 5, 2007

Where:
university of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Why: To see how the venus flytrap can help society.

My Opinion:

This is really interesting because humans learn from the environment on how to create things like computers or advancements in medicine. The Venus Flytrap is one of those very strange plants you will rarely come across in your life and it's strange that it can help with things like technology and medicine. The flytrap could also help to see when foods spoil by snapping surfaces in food packaging.It could work as sensors that react when food is spoiling or storage temperatures are too high. In helping with medicine, using the material that is like a flytrap could help transport medicines to the body. If you ever come across a flytrap be careful because it snaps its mouth and doesn't even have muscles (a strange fact).