quote: Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems has developed BrainGate, a product aimed at enabling quadriplegics to do things like surf the Web, write e-mails, play video games and operate TV remotes and telephones just by thinking.
Here is the full article. Aside from the Sci-Fi associations this is great news for quadriplegics. My, how technology flies!
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I was all excited until I got to this part:
quote:The system requires a surgeon to drill a hole in the patient's head and implant a chip on the surface of the brain area responsible for moving arms and hands.
Now I'm excited and squicked out.
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Very interesting. Since the chip lays on top of the brain, I wonder what it is picking up on. Could be changes in electrical potential, or it could be a change in magnetic fields (moving electric charges in neurons create magnetic fields that can be picked up outside the skull, so why not inside?
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[obscure movie reference] They don't have to think in Russian, do they? [/obscure movie reference]
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