Vision Like Your 9V Battery?
January 5, 2008 11:27 PM   Subscribe

Mixed Feelings, a Wired article about taking advantage of the brain's neuroplasticity to add new senses by stimulating our existing ones in new ways.
posted by knave (11 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: So double, you can taste it. -- cortex



 
Imagine how many people with disabilities sensory prosthetics will one day help. And gaming! *drools* Who needs flying cars when you got stuff like this.

Nice one, knave.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 11:53 PM on January 5, 2008


Here's the Mixed Feelings video from the Wired Science television show episode that covered this topic.

I highly recommend Wired Science. It's good science journalism.
posted by sdodd at 12:19 AM on January 6, 2008 [1 favorite]


That just all sounds badass. Hell, I think I'd take some of the bulkiness for some extra senses. Neuromancer, here we come!
posted by bpm140 at 12:19 AM on January 6, 2008


It didn't feel bad, actually — like licking the leads on a really weak 9-volt battery.

The author of this has to be a mefi member.
posted by afu at 12:22 AM on January 6, 2008


"Those buttons on the box?" she said. "They're like the volume controls for the image. You want to turn it up as high as you're comfortable."
I cranked up the voltage of the electric shocks to my tongue. It didn't feel bad, actually — like licking the leads on a really weak 9-volt battery. Arnoldussen handed me a long white foam cylinder and spun my chair toward a large black rectangle painted on the wall. "Move the foam against the black to see how it feels," she said."

Cue 70s bass riff.

I vaguely remember some loose talk about this for jumping with the happs but the military went with more high opens in part because aircraft detection tech got better but mostly 'cause GPS makes it easier to go cross country (plus the less expensive equipment you have to lug, the better).

But yeah, for the planes, I know they're coming up with all kinds of goodies.
posted by Smedleyman at 12:25 AM on January 6, 2008


sdodd, thanks for the video link. Very cool!
posted by knave at 1:11 AM on January 6, 2008


Awesome. I want one of those directional belts.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 1:47 AM on January 6, 2008


This feels like a double.
posted by TwelveTwo at 8:02 AM on January 6, 2008


Can anyone still make the case for Pinker's nature over nurture position in the context of a programmable brain?
posted by Brian B. at 8:52 AM on January 6, 2008


Tastes like 9V
posted by null terminated at 9:12 AM on January 6, 2008


Awesome. I want one of those directional belts.

Me too. Massively awesome.
posted by Meatbomb at 9:31 AM on January 6, 2008


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