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Community => Recreation Commons => Our researchers have made a breakthrough! => Topic started by: Unorthodox on March 13, 2013, 06:10:45 pm

Title: Mind control...
Post by: Unorthodox on March 13, 2013, 06:10:45 pm

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/superman/2013/03/brain_computer_interfaces_could_neural_implants_give_you_telekinesis.html (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/superman/2013/03/brain_computer_interfaces_could_neural_implants_give_you_telekinesis.html)

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Stephen Helms Tillery’s laboratory at Arizona State University is one of a growing number where researchers are racing to explore the breathtaking potential of BCIs and a related technology, neuroprosthetics. The promise is irresistible: from restoring sight to the blind, to helping the paralyzed walk again, to allowing people suffering from locked-in syndrome to communicate with the outside world. In the past few years, the pace of progress has been accelerating, delivering dazzling headlines seemingly by the week.

Huge article too big to cut and paste. 

Neural implants, monkeys mind controlling robots, kind of a wrapup of various experiments.