A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
B I R D S A R E N T R E A L
Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink
Make it an account on Twitter (I refuse to call that thing X)
Closest I’ll do is call it Xitter (pronounced zitter)
good to see there are new developments in the IP Over Avian Carrier space
Though this proprietary implementation of cloud storage for IPoAC is very innovative, it’s really only useful for enthusiasts of the protocol and it comes with some security concerns. Writing data to the storage is inconsistent and requires a lot of effort on the uploader’s part. And if you do manage to get the data to write properly, there’s no guarantee retrieving the data will be lossless.
The most worrying part for me, however, is that there’s no guarantee that the data can be removed from the cloud without obliterating the server it’s stored on or waiting for the device to degrade over time. Until these are addressed I don’t think we’ll see widespread adaptation.
What if I have bird blindness and I try and teach it to a duck?
Ducks? That’s quackery.
What’s the deal with the parrot?
While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.
not that kind of bird
But, birds aren’t real.
There are only flying dinosaurs.
This only seems to support the theory
Data on a bird ? This will convince people about birds being drones more now.
Me, everytime I see a bird:
better than me:
Well of course NSA’s spy device can store information. We’ve known this for decades
The video is by Benn Jordan, I wholeheartedly recommend this video and entire channel. Guy is a world treasure.
We’re finally getting tweets back
2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
A million monkeys on typewriters is old news. Now we’re gonna teach a million starlings to play back the entire bee movie.
You could find out which frame of the movie starlings like the best
And they say physical media is dead!
The average lifespan of a starling is usually between two and five years.
This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service. You’ll never own anything. If we can get homing pigeons to learn movies, we could cut delivery costs
They tried to make this a thing once :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-D
If Disney did this, they’d probably just poison the birds so they die faster.
Capitalism at its worst. Here let’s make more plastic garbage so that you have to buy more things.
I like Benn Jordan a lot but I really doubt a bird can sing 2 MB / s. I saw the spectrogram and it looked pretty fuzzy
Hear me out! Bird factor authentication!
Please honk your seagull to unlock your ed25519-so ssh key
I’ve been honking my seagull all morning, until my wife came in and caught me…
Now what do I do?
Ask her to join you?
Only a matter of time befor megacorps put ads and a subscription service on bird calls, now. 😫
