Amazing shrimp may help create better DVDs
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Amazing shrimp may help create better DVDs
-- To improve DVD and CD players, researchers are looking underwater -- at the eyes of the colorful peacock mantis shrimp.
The mantis shrimp is pretty interesting. It has the fastest known strike for an animal its size (up to seven inches), with claws that deliver a blow equivalent to the force of a bullet.
But these creatures also have the most complex vision of any known animal. They see many more colors than humans can detect and can even see ultraviolet and other invisible light.
Now scientists have found that the mantis's eye processes some kinds of light in the same way a DVD player or CD player reads data from a disc. But the mantis's system is actually much better than the man-made technology in the DVD and CD players you use every day. The challenge now is to re-create with technology in the lab what the the mantis does naturally in the wild.
