[Kosh]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4648139.stm


Well, sort of

[karajorma]

If that was me I'd be tempted to hook up speakers when I'm in public and have to go "nananananananana" whenever I do something

[Turnsky]

pfft.. call those bionic arms

THIS, is a cybernetic arm  

[Mefustae]

Indeed, having one's mind directly connected to a machine is quite intruiging...but as this technology progresses, what is to stop the machine imposing its will on the mind connected to it...?

[Carl]

because the machine doesn't have a mind

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Carl
because the machine doesn't have a mind

what if the machine is hooked up to a politician?.. or a person who avidly watches (and likes) reality television?

[Ace]

It'd be a marked improvement

[aldo_14]

I'd feel sorry for the machine.

[General Freak]

Turnsky, that's a drawing.

Er, need I say more?

I wouldn't call that guy a bionic man though (how much machine do you have to be in order to become a cyborg, bionic or Darth Vader?).

[karajorma]

According to Kevin Warwick you only need a microchip implanted under your skin to be a cyborg. But then again Kevin Warwick is idiotic arse

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Mefustae
Indeed, having one's mind directly connected to a machine is quite intruiging...but as this technology progresses, what is to stop the machine imposing its will on the mind connected to it...?

They are finding that any interface made between human and machine works only because the human brain is able to adapt to the outside signal.  The machine itself is unable to work itself into the human brain.

They were finding that plugging a machine in and modifying someones thoughts would also be extremely difficult or entirely impossible (depending on what the research tells them) because every brain is different and every brain essentially re-writes everything every day.  So you brain is like having an OS that moves the control panel from the start menu to word and then to internet explorer and does this every day.

The scientists were sort of in awe (the ones I was reading about) that the human brain had so much flexibility and was doing all the hard work of human/machine interfaces for them.

[kasperl]

If you read the article, I don't think the nerves have a direct hookup to the arm, but are instead moving muscles in his chest, and that is detected by the arm. Not sure though.

I do wish they'd get to work on the tech that allowed those monkeys to use a robotic arm as an extra limb,while maintaining controll over their existing ones. That'd be great, really.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]This is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to research after getting my degree.

This and direct nerve input on your average PC. It would allow 'locked in's' i.e. people who have full brain function but no voluntary muscle control to use a computer.
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[mikhael]

Originally posted by kasperl
If you read the article, I don't think the nerves have a direct hookup to the arm, but are instead moving muscles in his chest, and that is detected by the arm. Not sure though.

I do wish they'd get to work on the tech that allowed those monkeys to use a robotic arm as an extra limb,while maintaining controll over their existing ones. That'd be great, really.

Hell yeah. I'll be one of the first to hook up an extra pair of arms. Imagine how much more efficient you'd be: both hands on the keyboard, one on the mouse and one on the number pad. Better yet, two hands on the steering wheel and one on the emergency brake and one on the shifter.

I'll also be the first in line for a direct brain link to the internet--after I figure out how to put a transparent OpenBSD firewall between me and the net.

[FireCrack]

^looks like you're going for a "3 right arm 1 left" solution there.

[Nico]

Originally posted by mikhael


Hell yeah. I'll be one of the first to hook up an extra pair of arms. Imagine how much more efficient you'd be: both hands on the keyboard, one on the mouse and one on the number pad. Better yet, two hands on the steering wheel and one on the emergency brake and one on the shifter.

let me connect directly to the PC or the car, it'll be way more efficient imho

[mikhael]

Firecrack: I'd just switch things around to suit me, if necessary. My truck has the emergency brake on the left side of the steering wheel, thus a 2 left 2 right solution. My keyboard enforces a right side number pad but does not have to. Logitech makes a keyboard set with a separate number pad. You just move the number pad to the left et voila another 2 left, 2 right solution.

Venom: you're right, but I'm talking little steps.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by mikhael
Better yet, two hands on the steering wheel and one on the emergency brake and one on the shifter.

Bollocks to that. Two hands on the wheel, one on the gear shift and the other one out the window giving everyone the finger!

[Martinus]

Originally posted by karajorma


Bollocks to that. Two hands on the wheel, one on the gear shift and the other one out the window giving everyone the finger!

[color=66ff00]Model driver.
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[mikhael]

I live in America. If I have a hand out the window throwing a finger, I'll get shot.

Besides, how do you drift without the emergency brake?