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!
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
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.
Posted by endersbean3k1 (Member # 7651) on :
But this was supposed to be MY life's work....
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I thought about typing this.
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?
Hmm...
Very cool.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
[obscure movie reference] They don't have to think in Russian, do they? [/obscure movie reference]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Fire Fox Down.
Edit: Just Firefox. Firefox Down was a sequel novel.