I read a story about a University of Florida scientist who used rat neurons in a Petri dish to control a flight simulator. Several news sources reported the same thing and all of the reports were extremely credulous and very similar. The scientist hasn't published a paper on the flight simulator control interface but one of his earlier papers seems to show that it is not all the press made it out to be.
So, I set out to fake something similar:
Press Release - this has been taken down because it was linked to directly and it was not clear that it was a fake.
Notice in the third video the dog neurons show signs of their instinctual behavior rooted in their DNA.
Sources
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/11/02/brain.dish/ - initial idea
http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2004news/braindish.htm - actual press release
http://www.utexas.edu/features/ - website design template