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PollWhat should the government do about ailing financial institutions? Nothing, except to back off and get out—as any Objectivist knows, intervention is treating the disease with the disease 84% Intervene judiciously—enough to avert a catastrophe that is otherwise imminent 3% Intervene massively—as it's doing 3% Nationalize the whole economy and be done with it. Bring on the USSA! 1% Something else (specify) 9% Total votes: 76
 Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
 Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
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Celebrating Cool Technology: Direct Neural Interface Submitted by Suma on Sun, 2007-11-18 05:52.
Scientists have developed software that can directly translate pulses from neurons (in the brain) into speech. This is not quite turning thoughts into speech, as the neurons in question (41 of them in the study) are involved in generating speech, i.e. the person has to imagine saying something and that activity is captured, analyzed and translated. This can potentially give a "voice" to accident victims who are "locked in" - aware but paralyzed and only able to communicate through eye movements. Currently they are achieving about 80% accuracy so they have a long way to go, but there are some incredible possibilities once the technology is perfected and extended to other areas of the brain. Imagine, thinking of writing code, and it appears on the screen without typing via the keyboard, or visualizing a picture/painting/scene in great detail and have it appear on the screen without knowing how to draw. More details of the work are here. Very cool!! (via /.)
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General Introduction
Towards Replacement Parts for the Brain
Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses
Berger and Glanzman, editors. MIT Press (2005)
Table of Contents
Shoulder and Elbow
Shoulder and elbow today. Wrist and hand tomorrow.
http://motorlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/
http://motorlab.neurobio.pitt.edu/articles/nature06996.pdf
Exoskeletons? And to think
Exoskeletons? And to think I was impressed just with the moth brain interfaced to a robot (under 'Projects').
Cybrids
Cybrids
Fundamental Paper - Baruchi and Ben-Jacob
Thanks for the links,
Thanks for the links, Stephen.
Exoskeleton Turns Humans Into Terminators: Cannot leap over buildings, but this is the declassified stuff, so we can only wonder about what else the military may be working on.
Thanks for the info! I love
Thanks for the info! I love hearing news on developments in brain-machine-interface, such as monkeys controlling joysticks with their brain, artificial eyes by bonding direct to nerves, etc. I hadn't encountered the thought-word recognition before and it sounds like a great step forward.
Related Progress
Thanks for the information, Suma.
Here are some related achievements and efforts:
Artificial Cochlea
Towards Silicon Retina
Towards Chip for Memory Repair
Add sharing memories, not
Add sharing memories, not just photos and videos, to the head cinema, Mark.
Yes Claudia, exciting times to live in....I was going to post this picture from the Onion to your hot men thread before I saw Linz's Martha/Arthur warning!
I'm sure we will have a "hottest exoskeletons" thread in a few years!!
Math co-processor: yes, I'm
Math co-processor: yes, I'm in for one of those. I've more than a few knarly old farming clients who can beat me on division, which is embarrassing
Spell checker: just my luck I'd slot in an American one, and never be able to re-boot the damned thing to proper English.
Thesaurus chip: don't know, but I reckon I could raise an argument that therein would lie madness
(Therein 'lay' madness').
Grammar checker. And, the killer application: head cinema (perhaps without the sub woofer though).
Thesaurus
A thesaurus chip for me.
Suma...
this is truly amazing.
What an incredible time we live in. I love it.
Spell Check
I want a spell check.
Wm
I have been waiting for a
I have been waiting for a maths co-processor.
This is incredible stuff
This is incredible stuff Suma.
I've been waiting too long now for a bio-memory chip I can slot into my brain: sure hope someone is working on that.