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Tonight on 60 minutes - Brain Power (plug your brain into a computer)
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| nov 2nd, 2008
| 60 mintues
Posted on 11/02/2008 11:15:35 AM PST by do the dhue
BRAIN POWER - People who are completely paralyzed due to illness or trauma are getting help communicating with a new technology that connects their brains to a computer. In the future, brain computer interface, or BCI, may restore movement to paralyzed people and allow amputees to move bionic limbs. Scott Pelley reports. Denise Schrier Cetta is the producer.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Technical; Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: brain; computer; connect; paralyzed
Pretty cool tech
I just don't want to hook my brain into a computer. I don't think anybody would want me to hook my brain into a computer anyhow.
To: do the dhue
What if my brain gets the Windowz BSOD right after I plug in?
To: do the dhue
Was this technology developed in free markets or communism?
Just askin.
To: Ancient Drive
An apple a day keeps the BSOD away I hear.
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:20:22 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(4 legs good, 2 legs baaaad!, ~~ Obama Hussein - You make it, we take it.)
To: do the dhue
I just want to be able to stuff like jujitsu and karate directly into my brain.
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:22:28 AM PST
by
aft_lizard
(One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
To: do the dhue
Can this machine help leftist liberals?
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:23:34 AM PST
by
SumProVita
("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
To: aft_lizard
Meant to say I just want to be able to download stuff like jujitsu and karate directly into my brain.
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:24:14 AM PST
by
aft_lizard
(One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
To: aft_lizard
Brain InterActive Construct!
(That's Brainiac for you non-Superman fans)
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:35:32 AM PST
by
GreatOne
(You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
To: do the dhue
I think it would be quite helpful to have a small handheld calculator in my brain.
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:37:18 AM PST
by
AndrewB
To: GreatOne
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:42:14 AM PST
by
GreatOne
(You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
To: aft_lizard
Downloads like that will come later, I am sure. :-)
I want a chess download. I could mess some friends up finally.
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:42:44 AM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
“We are the Borg, you will be assimilated, we will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, resistance is futile. . .”
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:44:26 AM PST
by
curling
To: curling
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posted on
11/02/2008 11:47:52 AM PST
by
do the dhue
(They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
To: AndrewB
The hand holding the calculator would take up lots of room.
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posted on
11/02/2008 3:16:34 PM PST
by
listenhillary
(4 legs good, 2 legs baaaad!, ~~ Obama Hussein - You make it, we take it.)
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