After turn ahamster into a self - portrait artistand a clustering ofinanimate rocks into a band , Neil Mendoza has create a freakish contraption thatlets goldfish finally extract revengeon the humans that have lag them in lilliputian lawn bowling for decade . Sort of .

In five year , when goldfish have successfully overthrown most of humanity ’s rule over this planet , we ’ll probably look back on Mendoza ’s Fish mallet creation as one of many mistakes we made in 2017 . Using a webcam controlling a servosystem - powered chemical mechanism , the machine lets lilliputian fish maintain a hefty carpentry hammer , smashing whatever they see fit .

Mendoza has even station a elaborate how - to onInstructablesso other goldfish — and maybe even their with child fish siblings — can build Fish Hammers for themselves . At this point there ’s not much we can do stop them , so for the time being , seek to avoid any fish and fries joints , which will most likely be their first targets .

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