The future of brain-controlled devices
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 6:33 am
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Check out the January 2010 issue of National Geographic: Merging Man and Machine - The Bionic Age. So the future is now...kinda.Lyon wrote: ... it doesn't take a long stretch to imagine that, instead of controlling external things, in cases like optical neuritis, you could use the impulses from the working sensor (the eye) and bypass the damaged optic nerve altogether by sending the signals directly to the vision sensors. Using technology already available to move huge amounts of information wirelessly (internet) makes it seem this kind of thing isn't much more than a matter of implementing it.