Monkeys control robot arms with thoughts

[AztecWarrior]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031013/ap_on_sc/monkey_robot_arm_1

ph33r the monkeys :scared:

[Lise]

Clinical trials in a few years, and probably true cybernetics in a decade. Ah, it's a good time to be alive, methinks.

[ZionsFire]

Clinical trials in a few years, and probably true cybernetics in a decade. Ah, it's a good time to be alive, methinks.

Indeed.

[Hamma]

The world is over.

[Mtx]

Damnit!

I left my Armatron in the Texas storage unit.

[Happy lil Elf]

I can see it now.

"Fucking cheap bastard! You got one of those implants don't you? How the hell am I gonna compete with that?!?"

And the instantaneous reply from the guy with the implant "Stfu newb. |mplant pwns u."

[Kaikou]

"Humans have already been implanted with a similar device that allows them to control the movement of a cursor on a computer screen through their thoughts."

I want :(

[Entra]

Wow! Although I can imagine with some advance sci fi kinda technology, it can be sorta scary with what goes on in our brains, given that the tech works on our instant thoughts.

[Doppler]

Clinical trials in a few years, and probably true cybernetics in a decade. Ah, it's a good time to be alive, methinks.

Define life? When we merge man with machine who will come out on top.

But seriously I had a Direct Neural Interface wired into the base of my skull and it was great other then the fact that everrytime i sneazed my computer rebooted and when i used the microwave I get hot flashes (really bad considering I'm a guy) the wired refles are cool as hell but I cant shake hands with people anymore without throwing them into a Judo hold. Which whouldnt be so bad but my cybernetic arms are still a little glitchy and tend to over compensate, plus I cant get em wet. Next time I'll stick to the vat grown muscle.

[Flammey]

Fuck that, the world was over around mid 1900's

[DramaticFanatic]

Judgement day.

[Hamma]

:lol:

The problem comes when our computers become "self aware"

[Onizuka]

That is very cool. Things like that actually make me want to go to college.

[Ait'al]

Whats realy dangerous would be if a copy of windows became self aware. 8d

[Everay]

if a copy of windows became self aware. it would delete itself because it is obsolete. anyways, if you want to know the truth, there already is a man that has such devices atached to his body, he lost both arms when he touched a live wire ( he was a line man) and so now he sorta thinks, and the new arms move.

also, i want to be able to control my mouse with my brain too

[JetRaiden]

sounds cool...now excuse me while I go think up a sandwich in the kitchen.

[Rbstr]

That would be so awsome, i could get a robot Pen/Pencil so i don't get writing cramps anymore, and i need a thought keyboard and mouse so easy PS ownage and uber fast reaction. I also need a harddrive installed so i can remember peoples names and otherthings like that.
( once i had a class with this guy for a year and by the end of the year i didn't even know his last name)

[ZionsFire]

Downloading.... "Windows" HEY! Those are nasty pictures! ACTION CANCELLED!:lol:

[Robot]

can anyone say "inspector gadget?"

[Bighoss]

lol its so fucking obivous that were gonna replace ourselves with a different being, either an ultra genetically engineered human that has like an IQ of 300 and can run 50 MPH and can lift like 1000 pounds. Or we start merging ourselves with machine, which I think is a good idea. Hook me up with something like what neo has in the matrix. Just plug him in and he's a learning machine. Fuck school!!!

Oh yea I also read somewhere that the military is looking to replace all the controls in jets with something that allows the pilot just to think what he wants to do. So in other words the plane is moving at the speed of thought! I always wonder though what happens if you starting thinking about crashing your plane into the side of a mountain by mistake...

[AztecWarrior]

Can you say: 1984?

The "Thought Policeman"

1: Ear implants to boost hearing, and detect subversive words.
2: Several vision modes, like Predator.
3: Hidden cameras all over the body, watching in all directions.
4: Toes detatch to become cameras.
5: Silent jetpack to spy in windows.
6: Psionic implant to read the mind.

[Happy lil Elf]

1. Freedom of speech is a bitch. There are some limits on it but just saying something like "Man, I think the government sucks!" can cause no legal reprecussions.

2. Using infrared to see into peoples houses by the police without a warrent is, I believe, currently before the supreme court and will most likely fail.

3. How is that a problem? It would also be confusing as hell to boot.

4. Ok...again what's the problem. right now I could place cameras all over your house that would be nearly impossible to detect. I'd rathr have someone use their toe, easier to see :lol:

5. ....how do you come up with this on a discussion pertaiing to cybernetic implants /boggle

6. Would never pass legal scrutiny if used for any law enforcment purposes.

Yes, Aztec my friend, there are advantages to living in the U.S. Real life is not a novel about a society that defines opressive :p

[Sputty]

Pfff, monkeys are so stupid they'd just decapitate eachother while trying to eat their own feces

[Everay]

i want to mention, that currently, your brain carries much more infromation than a standard hard drive, unfortunaly, i think its only about a terrabyte, just wait for quantom computers, those things (if we see them before were dead) will be the shit. get this, they will use phisical objects to store info, like, they can store one byte on a atom, so in something the size of a atom, somthing like 24.000,000,000 atoms are in that area, so umm, thats like 24 terrabytes in something that small. also, it will be able to call up the info in a blink of a eye, if not faster. though, i dunno if we will be able to play games on em... and also, this is according to phyisics, and the first quantom computer is already being built, in auzzy land

[Bighoss]

Gimme

[Ait'al]

When that day comes i fear the guy who gets mad at his comp 8\ Kabbooomm!!!!!!

[Robot]

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo

Inspector Gadget

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo doo Doo

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo

Inspector Gadget

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo doo Doo

[Nimbus]

I can see them doing a lot of cool things with these chips. The only thing that worries me is humans becoming too dependant on them

[Happy lil Elf]

Quantum computers are a lot like nanites. They'd be fucking sweet if they worked, but so far no one has even come close to getting them to or even come up with a workable theory to make them work. Pipe dream atm, but in 50 years? Meh, could be ;)

[ZeusCali]

scary thought your computers at work would tell you to stop playing video games!

imagine Poki the cybernetic monkey "GIMMIE THE BANANA KID!!"(bends the bars on his cage running after the little 9 year old)

[DramaticFanatic]

haha, it would kick ass to have a Mp3 player 'chip' implanted in your brain, and when your at school you could turn it on in history class. :p

Edit : you could have a hole in the back of your head (like in the matrix) to upload files. :)

[Nimbus]

Quantum computers are a lot like nanites. They'd be fucking sweet if they worked, but so far no one has even come close to getting them to or even come up with a workable theory to make them work. Pipe dream atm, but in 50 years? Meh, could be ;)
Well here's the thing though. We really have no idea how much it would take. The speed of advances is getting faster every day. We've got scientists working on things like quantum computers, teleportation, anti gravity. All kinds of cool stuff. To us we're thinking, okay, maybe in 50 years we'll have one. If you actually look, a lot of the scientists are going. "10 years, maybe 5, depends how lucky we are."