New technique for IP over avian carriers

[Wudang]

We all know about RFC 2549 : IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

Now we have a data storage mechanism. A guy encoded a drawing of a bird as a PBG file. Transformed that into sound via a spectral synthesizer, played it to a starling and the starling sang it back.

Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

: Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?

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[Darat]

Amazing - just now waiting for the first spam message from the pigeons in my garden.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

176kB is a hell of a big tweet.

 

[novaphile]

176kB is a hell of a big tweet.

120 characters seems more achievable for bird-brains.