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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

No, this isn't dirty. [Roll Eyes]

From CNN:

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A narrow strip of red plastic connects the Brain Port to the tongue where 144 microelectrodes transmit information through nerve fibers to the brain.

Instead of holding and looking at compasses and bluky-hand-held sonar devices, the divers can processes the information through their tongues, said Dr. Anil Raj, the project's lead scientist.

Seriously weird.

--Enigmatic
(I lament for poor Tongue-Tongue, for now he has but one tongue with which to taste an entire world.)

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

O.o

Wow. The tongue thing's a bit weird but the actual concept is very cool.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Brian Eno summed it all up:

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But her sense of taste is such that
she'll distinguish with her tongue
the subtleties a spectrograph would miss.

The Fat Lady of Limbourg

Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :

That sounds really cool! I want one.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Piers Anthony had a pebble in one of the Xanth books that tasted bad when you were going in the right direction and good when you were going in the wrong direction.

The problem, of course, was that "good" was from the perspective of an animal that ate coal.

This thing sounds cooler.

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

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Originally posted by Enigmatic:
(I lament for poor Tongue-Tongue, for now he has but one tongue with which to taste an entire world.)

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I can taste the floor! I can taste everything!