Oh no! The ravens are attacking the turtles! Ponte at the controls of a jeep, and drives away those ugly birds by shooting them with a laser. This phrase seems to be the description of a gaming ordinary until you discover that everything is real. The turtles and the crows are real, they live in California, and the laser is on top of a rover radio control.
The game is called the Raven Repel, and you can download it from Google Play, just that it is still in simulation phase. In other words, the crows that you shoot are not real… yet.
To understand all this we need to move to the deserts of Mojave and Sonora in the south of California, which are the natural habitat of the desert tortoise. This small subspecies of the tortoise of earth has a very serious problem with the crows. For centuries, the birds of black plumage have been kept out of the habitat of the turtles, but garbage dumps have multiplied out of control and entering the territory of the reptiles. The crows have discovered that the turtle hatchlings of the desert are a tasty treat and easy to hunt, and their greed is driving the species to the brink of extinction.
Tim Shields has spent all his life studying turtles in the desert. A few years ago, this illustrated scientific and conservationist he devised a project to prevent the ravens end up with the species. The idea was to create a róver autonomous to follow the turtles and scared the crows. To do this he founded a company called Hardshell Labs turned to Kickstarter, where he managed to finance his successful campaign.
The problem is that crows are very wary, but they are not stupid, and there comes a moment in which it is accustomed to the rover or learn to avoid it. For this reason, Shields and his team joined the only thing that the ravens hate more than a buggy radio control: a laser.
The eyes of the crows are so sensitive that they perceive everything the laser beam and do not like. You also have the advantage that they damage even though they hit directly. The only problem is that it has invented a sighting system as sophisticated as in order to hit the bird with sufficient accuracy, so that Hardshell Labs has decided to convert the initiative into a video game.
When you finish the rover (currently in testing), it is sufficient to install the game and shoot the crows. On the other side of the world, a small buggy radio control with a laser cannon will follow our instructions to make the puñeta to a few crows. It’s all about the turtles. [Hardshell Labs via Motherboard]
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