THe pwer of the brain - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2012, 07:59:33 pm
content: http://gizmodo.com/5968979/woman-gains-full-mind-control-of-robotic-arm-just-like-in-star-warshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9750735/Paralysed-woman-uses-thought-alone-to-operate-robotic-arm..htmlTHis woman is fully paralyzed form the head down. Using two tiny chips implanted in her brain that pick up minute electrical signals she has control of a robot arm.

author: jancumps
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 17, 2012, 08:39:01 pm
content: AAAh. Science helps humanity.Cool. Thanks for sharing.

author: jeroen74
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2012, 10:55:46 pm
content: I've witnessed personally the absolutely amazing capability of the (child) brain to adapt.My now almost 7 years old daughter suffered from meningitis just before her third birthday and as a consequence lost all hearing; luckily that's the only consequence.She received cochlear implants on both sides quickly thereafter and I didn't expect that much from it, but I'm still amazed how this crude*technology enables her to hear and has enabled her to continue learning to speak mostly by hearing. Of course with the necessary amount of therapy.I mean, how many of us could still adapt that quickly, if ever, to hearing the world like this...http://www.hei.org/research/shannon/simulations/And this is an idealized simulation with white noise and no background noises. What she actually hears is probably worse.I guess she was very lucky, being the 'right' age and having a developed auditory memory. Most definitely not all CI users do as well as my daughter does.And oh... the stuff is from Australia*: crude compared to the original biological system it replaces. The external and internal pieces of electronics are fairly impressive feats of miniaturisation.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2012, 11:44:51 pm
content: It's wonderful, isn't it. And only early beginnings still; one can hope the technology will advance greatly.With any luck by the time my body gives out in a few more decades, I'll be able to get my brain ladled into some kind of upright metal cylinder on wheels. Add a dome on top that swivels with a camera on a sort of eye-stalk, and a couple of front-mounted manipulator arms... no wait, make that one arm and one disintegrator gun. Plus a tasteful grid of dome-shaped bumps on the cylinder exterior, and I think I'd feel quite at home.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2012, 04:15:50 am
content: EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE Kill the Doctor! ( said in a voice sent through a ring modulator).

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2012, 10:18:04 pm
content: I went for a job with Cochlear maybe almost 20 years ago.I started poorly in the interview, I then got flustered and did worse, ie probably they just saw right through me. It was so annoying not answering questions that I really could've answered.Anyway that was such a shame for me as I would've really loved that job and the chances to learn that went along with it.Nevertheless I saw what a good company they were and was amazed at what they were doing so I bought some shares in the company, which have done really well.Pleased to know they are doing a good job.

author: AlfBaz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 27, 2012, 10:35:38 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on December 17, 2012, 11:44:51 pmArgh...For a moment I thought you were heading this way