Hijacked cicadas play music like a cyborg loudspeaker 🦗🔊 The chirp of the cicada has received an electronic upgrade that turns the insects into cyborg loudspeakers playing anything from Pachelbel’s Canon to the theme from Top Gun. Cicadas make noise with organs called timbals that, when flexed, create a click. To take control of the timbals, the researchers implanted electrodes into seven large brown cicadas (Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata) and used signals from a computer passed through an ampli