[NewCandle] Artificial quasi-life in the news.

[Keith Nagel]

Watch the video on this page; pretty remarkable!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16910-chemical-caterpillar-points-to-e
lectronicsfree-robots.html

The BZ reaction that is the basis of this work can be
made to generate scroll waves; as shown here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI2Y7wzhjVA

I've generated such waves mechanically by using a polyphase
air pulser to drive a ripple tank. Get the distance and
phasing right and you generate those scroll waves.

K.