A neuroscience company called Backyard Brains made a Longfin Inshore squid dance along to Cypress Hill, by stimulating its chromatophore cells to the tune of Insane in the Brain.
The firm -- founded by University of Michigan graduates -- used a microstimulation system that was last used to make cockroach legs wiggle as researchers whistled into a speaker (which essentially works like a microphone, but in reverse).
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/24/squid-dance
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