The power of your miiind!

m0ds · Thu 13/07/2006 00:52:43

This is quite an interesting read! Basically a chap, who is paralysed, is now able to move a mouse cursor, open his email AND play Monkey Island just by thinking. Awesome

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5167938.stm

Kinoko · Thu 13/07/2006 01:58:06

Welcome to the WORLD OF TOMORROWWWWWWWW!

Seriously, that's -really- interesting.

Domino · Thu 13/07/2006 02:03:02

Cool!! Now i can play games with my mind, and use my hands for other things.

deadsuperhero · Thu 13/07/2006 03:53:01

That's just incredible. Some day, paralzyed people will have cybernetic limbs and be able to walk and do normal things before they got in accidents.

MillsJROSS · Thu 13/07/2006 04:03:11

And that's when EMP really becomes effective.

I'll be more interested when the technology is good enough to try on "normal" non-paralyzed people. We'll just have to be careful not to make terminators.

-MillsJROSS

deadsuperhero · Thu 13/07/2006 04:12:55

Quote from: MillsJROSS on Thu 13/07/2006 04:03:11
We'll just have to be careful not to make terminators.

Well, there will probably be strict laws similar to Asimov's 3 laws of robotics when we start making robots and cyborgs and whatnot.
But this is especially amazing, mainly because a few of my friends are paralzyed.

Sam. · Thu 13/07/2006 09:05:25

Quote from: Alliance on Thu 13/07/2006 04:12:55

But this is especially amazing, mainly because a few of my friends are paralzyed.

What did you do?

deadsuperhero · Thu 13/07/2006 09:08:29

Quote from: Zooty on Thu 13/07/2006 09:05:25
Quote from: Alliance on Thu 13/07/2006 04:12:55

But this is especially amazing, mainly because a few of my friends are paralzyed.

What did you do?

I beat them with a ba...umm..
I mean, they were born that way....

Ali · Sat 15/07/2006 12:27:34

I'm afraid I was distracted by the 'see also' link titled 'monkey brain operates machine'.

I daren't click in case it's not a mechanical banana picker, or some kind of dung flinging apparatus.

Babar · Sat 15/07/2006 14:47:07

Wasn't there something like this posted on the forums a while back? About brain-powered limbs and moving of mouse with thought?

Tom S. Fox · Sat 15/07/2006 17:16:09

Quote from: Domino on Thu 13/07/2006 02:03:02
Cool!! Now i can play games with my mind, and use my hands for other things.

What kind of games? Those Hentai things?

Mad-Hatter · Thu 27/07/2006 02:05:14

Quote from: Alliance on Thu 13/07/2006 04:12:55

Well, there will probably be strict laws similar to Asimov's 3 laws of robotics when we start making robots and cyborgs and whatnot.

We already HAVE laws for robotics. I saw it on the Colbert Report...

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Thu 27/07/2006 10:10:20

QuoteHe told the BBC's Science in Action programme that although some positive signs had been seen for one patient, the paper showed that the technology did not work in the second, older patient.

Pity they didn't expand on it. I'd really like to know why it didn't.

Afflict · Thu 27/07/2006 16:29:34

Quote from: Domino on Thu 13/07/2006 02:03:02
Cool!! Now i can play games with my mind, and use my hands for other things.

Your not going to be playing a certain anime title.... with this are you

The power of your miiind!

m0ds