Successful DIRECT NEURAL interface tested on monkeys!

[Xerxes]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21153-2002Mar13.html

If that is not the coolest thing...

I was thinking though... how would it be using say... MS Paint. How would that feel, drawing with your mind....?

/xerxes' brain shivers :)

[Mr Jones]

I can think of many many many interesting pictures I could draw with my mind, where can I get one of these devices :D :eek:

[Merlin]

Nice. I could use such technology to draw what I'm really thinking, not what these ham fists allow me to draw.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Yet another sickening slide down the trail into horrific human experiment. Why are we so obsessed?

[c2R]

Sickening?

What this?

In 1998, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta reported that a paralyzed man was able to control a cursor with a cone-shaped, glass implant, using it to operate a voice synthesizer that allowed him to communicate.


Any inventions that help make life better for people can't be that evil and horrific. Having said that I personally think I'll be sticking to my mouse...

[Bilbo Baggins]

Ok, maybe I was a little strong, but it will be taken too far.

[c2R]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
Ok, maybe I was a little strong, but it will be taken too far.

Yeah, I agree with that - if the technology does prove useful it's very likely that some unethical use will be made of it.