Jess Weatherbed

The price of the first-gen iPhone has exploded in recent years, with a similarly pristine handset fetching almost $40,000 at auction in October last year. Check your drawers!

A team of researchers designed the “ornithopters” to resemble a flying bird in hopes they can be used to stealthily study wildlife — and maybe spy on people and foreign militaries. The team acknowledged to New Scientist that it should “look into research policies for dealing with dead birds before getting more ambitious,” though.