Flesh Eating Robots

Futuristic-looking robots like Honda's sleek humanoid Asimo don't cut it for designer James Auger, at the Royal College of Art, London. Believing that they need to fit unobtrusively into the home, he has built robotic furniture. And, believing they need to be useful and entertaining, he has given the furniture an appetite for vermin, like mice and flies.

The pests are lured in and digested by an internal microbial fuel cell. This exploits the way microbes generate free electrons and hydrogen ions when oxidising chemicals for energy. Electronics can be powered by directing the electrons around an external circuit before reuniting them with the ions.

Taken from: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17372-gallery-domestic-robots-with-a-taste-for-flesh.html

Oh man, I can't get my hands on the ultraviolet lamp!!! I have lots of mozzies and houseflies at home... I hope it'll generate enough power to charge up my iphone and fish tank... =P

And because its organic energy, we can feed the microbial fuel cell all the left over meat from the buther, roadkills, amputated limbs from the hospital and even little fetuses aborted by people. All in the name of clean and safe energy.