GENOMICON

To be honest I’ve seen a whole swathe of proposed oil-slick cleaning things… but these look pretty cool… because the do that whole robotic swarming thing.

Only BP has used dispersants so the damage doesn’t “look” as bad, so now all the oil is… everywhere, instead of just on the surface… but still… nice try. Maybe they could be used to clear up the gazillion tons of plastic crap that’s now floating in the North Pacific. You could connect them up with the plastic-recycling things

which takes plastic and turns it into reprap food. That’s the idea anyway. I have a sneaking suspish that the solution to this one isn’t to eat it up, but to enzymatically break it down, using genetically engineered enzymes that go on to devour the entire planet.

Nice idea though. They could take all that dead plastic and turn it into millions of fucking nick-nacks or whatever. Little plastic ducks.