virus: Brain-machine interface update

From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 13:09:26 MDT

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    An update on the brain-machine interface, aka psychokinetic wired monkeys at Duke:

    Those wired monkeys moved a robotic arm by thought alone, without having to hold and move a dummy handle for stimulating the right brain activity.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/13/science/13BRAI.html

    or in the SciTech section of our BBS

    http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=26633

    As the article says, this can be important for people with kinetic disabilities in the short term. Probably much more in the long term.

    Here is a small Flash animation
    http://news.mc.duke.edu/filebank/2003/10/41/Robot_arm.swf

    The full study is here:
    http://www.plosbiology.org/pips/plbi-01-02-carmena.pdf 

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