UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau are probably the wackiest of men on the planet with an appetite for generating energy even out of dead bugs and insects. The duo has come up with a bizarre flesh-easting clock that is powered by the juices of a decomposing dead insect. The meat-savvy LCD clock ticks over by trapping unaware insects on a flypaper stretched across its roller system and then sends them to a bacteria filled chamber where their torturous slow death begins. While this might not go down as a very bright idea with many, it could be argued that instead of just swatting them to death, we at least are utilizing their energy; be it in a very gruesome form!

So in case you happen to live near a very large landfill, then maybe you can get one such system to not just power a clock, but your entire home with scores of insects around… Or maybe not.

Via: Newscientist / Hackaday