The Pentagon is working on using remote-controlled sharks as stealth spies. Engineers funded by the US military have created a neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be manipulated remotely. The Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks' natural ability to glide quietly through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails, reports New Scientist. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Neural implants consist of a series of electrodes are embedded into the animal's brain, which can then be used to stimulate various functional areas. Biologist Jelle Atema of Boston University and his students are using them to "steer" spiny dogfish in a tank via a phantom odour. Project engineer Walter Gomes, of the Naval Undersea Warfare Centre, says the next step will be to implant the device into blue sharks and release them into the ocean off the coast of Florida.

Courtesy of Ananova, as usual. This seems very Gatch-ish. Like the St Bernard with the brain implant, or some evil Galactor mind control plot. Like Katse's seen Jaws too many times, and wants to really give those innocent holidaymakers a shock. A whole shoal of remote controlled sharks all heading for the beach at the same time I can really imagine that as an episode.

I would make the sharks attack people. Or just scare people on beaches. Wasn't there an episode where Katse had remote control whales? And they attacked boats? And Jinpei befriended a baby whale whose mother was one of the attack whales?

Yep, there's an episode like that. I think they were robot whales, and they ran into some real whales and killed them except for the baby whale. The baby whale then helped the team, and particularly Jinpei, track down the evil robot whales that killed its mother. It was the Joe of whales. Here is another Joe of whales

Aaaaaah. Robot whales. I think I like Joe the Whale. He has character. ^_^

Courtesy of DARPA, eh? The people who started the Internet. Go figure.

They were Killer whales I believe.

Originally posted by Elvin Ruler I would make the sharks attack people. Or just scare people on beaches. Wasn't there an episode where Katse had remote control whales? And they attacked boats? And Jinpei befriended a baby whale whose mother was one of the attack whales?