Posted on 02/18/2015 4:09:53 PM PST by Enlightened1
Forget HoloLens, forget smart glasses and forget augmented reality -- scientists have proposed a "cortical modem" that plugs into your DNA and your visual cortex to cure sight loss and show a heads-up display in front of your very eyes.
The cortical modem concept is the brainchild of DARPA, the US Defense Research Projects Agency. Originally founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, DARPA is the US military's research and development agency. It's perhaps best known outside of military circles for the development of ARPANET, an early packet switching network that formed a precursor to the Internet.
The cortical modem concept was presented by DARPA's Phillip Alvelda at a recent pow-wow in Silicon Valley, at which innovators, investors and other big brains were introduced to the agency's Biological Technologies Office (BTO), a blue-sky-thinking initiative announced last year.
During the event, transhumanist publication H+ reports that DARPA was described onstage as a "friendly, but somewhat crazy, rich uncle".
That crazy, rich -- or crazy rich -- uncle foresees the device providing a heads-up display or augmented reality projection appearing in your natural vision with no helmet or smart glasses or anything at all in front of your eyes. Like the Terminator. Or Robocop. Or something less shoot-y.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
Who would need a HUD (Heads Up Display like a pilot)?
Here is a short clip from the movie, “The Terminator” on what it might look like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEXGmnTwSlQ
Sounds ok until Big Brother sees what you see and can shut it off anytime....
No thanks.
How will you actually see? Take a random line of text, focus on one word and fix your gaze on just that one word. How many words to the left, right, above and below can you make out without moving your eyes? Not very many.
I just want to figure out how to not need reading glasses....
Right now in it's baby stages they use the trendy word “wearables”. It's only there for tracking your fitness.... yeah right.
The problem with this is that it goes 100% against God, but even if you are not a believer.... You should be concerned that it could be turned off, someone can hack into it, you are under complete control.....
No thanks... I prefer the body that God has blessed me with. I'm not “adding on” any attachments.
Porn
If it can do input into the brain, there will certainly soon be a way to read FROM the brain too...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Ghost_in_the_Shell
It is a primitive frm of a Cyberbrain that DARPA is foolng around with here...
Let me know when it’s ready. I’ll be at this place called Tech Noir.
Get it working for the blind people first, then maybe I would try it. They’ve got less to lose, right?
my main question is... what power it and how long does it last?
they are already experimenting with nano-scale drones. these drones are 50-100nm in size (a virus molecule is about 30nm and your dna is about 2.5nm)
if they wanted to inject something into you, you’d never know it. it’d float on the air, land on your skin, and enter your system straight thru your pores without breaking your skin.
LOL!
Yeah well watch out for the big guy in a grey jacket, who did not pay his cover fee, and is walking around the bar looking for someone.
“Possible Homer-Sexual”
It’s powered by your Spine. It’s a kinetic charged.
I don’t know how long it last?
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