Comments on: Bionics

Bionics

dfowler — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:13:56 -0800

Bionic Implants: Brain chip reads paralyzed man's thoughts, enables him to control devices like a computer or television .
Stanford physicists and eye doctors to design a "Bionic Eye ."

By: dfowler

dfowler — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:15:03 -0800

update on this fpp-- similar experimentation with monkeys

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:35:33 -0800

Call me when they can put a chip in my brain that will read WOMEN'S thoughts.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:37:53 -0800

too late for Terri... coulda showed us that there WERE no thoughts.

By: orange swan

orange swan — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:38:35 -0800

So what if he's trying to work and all he can think about is that he'd rather be looking at porn?

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:41:25 -0800

Those fullstop links are easily missable. Prof. Donoghue received an award last year just by the by. Very interesting FPP........the future is (virtually) now.

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:46:21 -0800

errr.....missable = missed

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:20:51 -0800

Will it make that awesome sound effect? :)

By: Specklet

Specklet — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:22:51 -0800

Whoa. (Anyone read Feed?)

By: blendor

blendor — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:46:21 -0800

I saw something on this a year ago on some Discovery-type channel. Cool stuff.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:49:36 -0800

That's a wonderful invention for a parapalegic. However, I can think of all sorts of not-so-nice applications. Does the good outweigh the (possible) bad? /tinfoil hat

By: JHarris

JHarris — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:10:57 -0800

A brain chip + one wireless card = EEEEEVIL!

By: iamck

iamck — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:26:52 -0800

*cough* singularity *cough*

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:59:00 -0800

I did some research on vision substitution systems, and direct retinal stimulation has the best promise for good vision - assuming the remainder of the visual pathway is intact, though. Unfortunately, a huge amount of blindness comes from stuff other than macular degeneration, so this particular project does nothing to address that. There are tons of other projects like this, though. Good links.

By: Potsy

Potsy — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:49:05 -0800

Indeed, JHarris. A brain/computer interface coupled with wireless networking would basically be telepathy. Very exciting. Viruses, spyware, and hidden goatse links could be a lot more painful to deal with, however.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:48:58 -0800

This is a good read, the technologyreview article... but... they need to implant some apostrophes and quotation marks. Where did they go?

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:14:36 -0800

i get tired of the whole "reading thoughts" hype. this thing measures electrical activity in different areas of the brain. the thing being controlled responds to brain activity in specific lcoations of the brain. the user is taught how to create activity in a specific areas of the rain being monitored as controls. that might involve "thought," but not thoughts like "there is no decoding of thought.

By: daHIFI

daHIFI — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:28:45 -0800

First heard about this guy a few months ago. I posted the following on my own website: There's a great article at Wired about Matthew Nagle and the BrainGate, an implant in Nagle's head that allows him to control a computer cursor. Nagle, a quadriplegic paralyzed in a knife attack, has a chip embedded in his head which interfaces with the computer. Wired has an earlier article on how "if people with physical handicaps could control a computer by just thinking, they could also operate light switches, television, even a robotic arm," and has a video of Matt using the BrainGate. (23MB .wmv file)
There was other news today on how researchers have developed a pacemaker for the brain to treat depression. The device uses deeply implanted electrodes to stimulate the brains of those with depression that has not been helped by traditional treatments. They basically stuck wires deep in the brain, ran them inside the back of the skull to the neck, and then around to the chest where a battery was implanted to provide constant electrical stimultaion.

By: bingo

bingo — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:40:00 -0800

oh yeah, daHIFI, I remember that article. Oh wait...I posted it.

By: dfowler

dfowler — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:40:16 -0800

I get tired of reading nit-picking comments like yours, 3.2.3. What an excellent contribution to this thread.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:44:01 -0800

That's so Buckaroo Banzai.