It seems to me that just about everyday now there is more and more evidence of the impending robot apocalypse. I’m really not a doom and gloom kinda guy, but when you see something like this clock that runs solely on the consumption of flies, you start to wonder what’s next. Perhaps a toaster that runs on kittens? Maybe a lawnmower that is powered from running over frogs? Or hows’about a giant, three-legged robot ravages the country side, sucking the blood from humans and enslaving all of humanity? Any day now. Check this out:

This prototype time-piece from UK-based designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau traps insects on flypaper stretched across its roller system before depositing them into a vat of bacteria. The ensuing chemical reaction, or “digestion,” is transformed into power that keeps the rollers rollin’ and the LCD clock ablaze. The pair offers an alternative design fueled by mice, another contraption whose robotic arm plucks insect-fuel from spider webs with the help of a video camera, and a lamp powered by insects lured to their deaths with ultraviolet LEDs.

Mice? Eww. From Engadget