Professor to wire computer chip to his nervous system...

Spoooon

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Article at CNN

Today this, tomorrow real life cyborgs!

Not quite that fast, but I can't wait till this professor takes this first step (2nd step really, if you read the article).
 

ltk007

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That's really cool. I really hope we see technology like that reaching the masses in my lifetime. Hehe, maybe they'll even make a cyber sex chip to be implanted on your, uhhh... well yeah...
 

Spoooon

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Well, I don't think I'd want anything implanted in my you know what. Unless it would help increase one's stamina? Hmmm... ;)
 

RedFox1

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Hmmm...

This guy's a professor at the University of Reading. I'm trying to imagine what I'd think if one of my professors announced one day that he was going to implant a chip in his arm so that he could navigate the world by sonar. "Yeah OK...this fruitcake is going to decide my grade for this class....time to withdraw."

-RedFox1
 

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Sounds cool, but there are too many unknowns IMHO. He's taking a good risk for science, but I guess that's noble of him.
 

BoberFett

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Ummm, that's goofy. I'm guessing this guy must know something.

Or maybe he's just off his rocker.

How is his brain going to know what to do with signals from this chip? It seems as absurd as grafting an extra set of arms on and expecting them to be functional. :p
 

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As robots become free thinkers, the only way humans can compete is to use computers to enhance the human brain, Warwick said

Well isn't that a stupid thing to say - we make robots. We decide if they exist or are turned into scrap metal. The day we have a real threat of competition from them is the day I want to see an EMP bomb detonated!
 

UnixFreak

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what a friggin kook. lunatics like these keep technology moving, I say. gots my respect.
 

cxim

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This is a bunch of crap !!!!

neural /electrode interconnections only last about a year at best & then scar disables them. There will be no complex neural signals transmitted...

About the best that can be expected from this is some type of connection for control for a myo-electric arm prosthesis.
 

cxim

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Spoon, research of this type has been going on for a long time...

The way the publicity has been presented is very deceiving.. It implies that brain-computer interaction will occur on some kind of significant level thru a peripheral nerve. That is not the case..
 

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I don't know guys, did you read the part where his wife is going to also be implanted (with a chip that is). This might be the only way that men can figure out what women really want (like they ever would tell us the truth), so if he wants to do this for the betterment of everyone else, I say let him go for it.
 

Spoooon

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<< The way the publicity has been presented is very deceiving.. It implies that brain-computer interaction will occur on some kind of significant level thru a peripheral nerve. That is not the case.. >>


I didn't find any deception in the article.

&quot;We simply don't know what my brain will do,&quot; Warwick said.

It sounds to me that they aren't quite sure what's going to happen, but are hopeful that the brain will be able to respond to the implant. I didn't read it and think that we're on our way to cybernetic implants in 10 years or anything like that. What I got from the article was that a scientist was taking another step researching that technology. And I don't think that that's a bunch of crap.
 

her209

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I think that stuff is already available.......... Al Gore already has one in him.
 

ArkAoss

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naw you guys dont get it, he had a chip in him once before, but it wasnt connected neuroligically, it was just so computers could detect him. what this chip will do is its gonna be wired to nerves that normally control muscles, because you can mentally send msgs to muscle areas, like when you flex your arm to show off you biceps, or when you wiggle one finger. they track those nerves and the chip recieves the signal and sends it to a big computer then they send the signal from the chip to see if they can fire the muscle without the brain. they also will have the chip connected to nerves that would normally alert him of pain or something, so they can send signals to the brain. it's really quite simple, just you hafta worry about scar tissue ruining the connection, and the brain getting the jist that the nerve is no longer connected to a pain sensor, the brain has to associate the nerve with internal pc input, and that will be the tricikiest part, because once that is set up you could rig it so you don't need a monitor any more, or key boards