Scientists create 'sixth sense' brain implant

ok, that is a good candidate for the 'mark of the beast' po-sit-ion

congrats on the pin and cool story omar. ;D

Cyborgs incoming!!!!

Aw yeah. The beginning of human augmentation with computers has started.

Hell yea

I want one.

now we can see through the wall and door..
great ..

It's not humans, people.

It's lab rats....

For now...


Lab rats are now able to "sense" infrared light...


Great.... And how is this useful?

Augmenting an atrophied, decayed species won't save it - but will only more quickly hasten its demise. To the junkyard you go...

you seem scared

Imagine if you will, such an implant thing becoming sophisticated enough that you can read webpages with it. Imagine if you will, being able to read and post on GLP simply by thinking about it. Being able to send/receive texts just by thinking about it. Being able to store your personal data inside your own head, instead of on some corporate owned cloud or home PC

Being able to access all the knowledge of the world just by thinking about it. Details step by step instructions for anything and everything instantly available to your brain.

That would be a pretty big bootstrap augmentation for many many people!

Well these things have been in sci-fi novels for decades, not much more sinister than the comm-pads that did all this stuff, such as in star trek, which have now come to life in the form of the tablet pc

uh-oh

some 2 years ago i was watching a chinese scientist on tv.
he said:

"in 5 to 10 years humans will be cyborgs it will be normal to have implants for lots of things."

has anyone heard of the cybernetic eye developed by germany and israel?
blind people which still haver a working nerve can use em.
he best about it is...you can upgrade it!
binoccular and night vision for example.

AMAZING!

There's also sci fi stories about the barbarians remaining in the dark ages while the new human v2.0 moved on to greatness heh

Pretty sure we'd also see this happening, with the "pure-human " faction against the "tech-enhancement" and perhaps a third faction, the "bio-enhancement" faction.

We'll make little "preserve" villages for the pure-animal human faction, like the indian preserves, you know? Like little enclosed amish communities ya!

I'm sure in a new Animatrix world, humans with brain chips would work absolutely fine. And I'm sure that after we're all nuked, all of the rational humans will live above their gravitating cities with the robot humans working underneath them.

The sixth sense is natural, fuck implants.

Sharks with friggin' laser beams people...

There will implants of nothing in this body.

Heh all you anti-tech assholes, how about I smack you's in the back of your neck with a tire iron and give you some spinal cord damage like I have - then you can tell everybody about your stupid-ass "mark of the beast" for real and I'll be happy to play the beast.

Last Edited by Cat.Man.Deux on 02/17/2013 10:41 AM

Thank you for the pin.

What I like the sound of is this:-
The study is part of an international effort to build a whole-body suit which allows paralysed people to walk again using their brain to control the device's movement.
Infrared sensing could be built into the suit to inform the person inside about where their limbs are and to help them "feel" objects.

will this explain why i still can't open some automatic doors?

Shut up and take my money

Bitter and crippled.

I bet you're a fucking riot at parties.

Oops, sorry, you don't get invited to any parties, sorry.

Bingo! Synthetic, robotic evolution.

Wow, really cool!

That looks just mean

I tried to write a response to him/her but I just couldn't

I guess there wasn't a response

Also think: Stephan Hawking

How much easier would his live be if he could just think out of a speaker, instead of having to synthesis everything with a bunch of bio-marker readers?

Tats great 4 ppl with disabilities and all, but in a few years when sht like this hits the mainstream, everybody will want 2 enhance their human capabilities i'm sure of it... The age of the cyborgs is coming my friends. You all will be faced with a hard choice. Will u keep up with societe by enhancing ur brain, but loose ur humanity and disconnect from ur true inner powers @ the same time, or stay boring and acheive those goals trough hard work and meditation... Why are we always in search 4 the magic pill...

Well i'm definitely choosing to leave my brain the way god intented thank you. Think about it, nature is ALWAYS more efficiant than anything we will ever build. So while the pll who choose the implants will only limit their powers, mine will keep growing... Maybe @ a slower rate but when i finally reach their levels, they will be stuck there until the technologie becomes better, i'll keep growing. No one will control my evolution but me.

the rise of the machines.