49 month ago
Linkorama : Humans in the Loop - Maybe we should be including some of the early systems thinkers in that remembrance as well. A lot of their big dreams didn't work out, and a few ended tragically. But we now have something they never had: experimental social cybernetics, at the scale of
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57 month ago
kayodeok : Syrian-Lebanese hospital to perform first surgery to implant robotic arm - A chip implanted into the patient's brain will make it possible to control the prosthetics
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60 month ago
kayodeok : An Off-and-On Switch for Controlling Animals? - The ability to switch on particular neurons may allow scientists to discover clues about a range of disorders, from Parkinson's disease to drug addiction
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60 month ago
kayodeok : Programmed DNA forms fractal: It is possible to coax short strands of artificial DNA to spontaneously assemble into a Sierpinski triangle - The ability is a step toward embedding programming instructions in chemical processes
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60 month ago
kayodeok : Non-acoustic sensors detect speech without sound - Just think how eerie it would be, yet also how peaceful - people all around having conversations on their mobile phones, but without uttering a sound
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60 month ago
kayodeok : Sony patents technology that transmits sensory data directly into the human brain - "Imagine movies and computer games in which you get to smell, taste and perhaps even feel things"
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60 month ago
kayodeok : Fly Brains Manipulated by Remote Control - Like a hypnotist who gets a man to act like a chicken when he hears a code word, scientists have genetically modified fruit flies to jump or beat their wings when flashed with lasers
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60 month ago
kayodeok : Bionic eye will let the blind see - The bionic eye comprises a computer chip that sits in the back of the individual's eye, linked up to a mini video camera built into glasses that they wear
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60 month ago
kayodeok : Brain chip reads man's thoughts - A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind
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61 month ago
kayodeok : BrainGate plugs brains into computers - Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems has developed BrainGate, a product that plugs a human brain into a desktop computer. "We can take someone's thought and put it on a screen," said Tim Surgenor, chief executive of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology System
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