New brain chip lets you control objects by thaught alone CRAZY!!

[Don Rizzle]

Brain chip reads man's thoughts
A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.
Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001.

The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone.

The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher.

Mind over matter

He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home.

Scientists have been working for some time to devise a way to enable paralysed people to control devices with the brain.

Studies have shown that monkeys can control a computer with electrodes implanted into their brain.


 It's quite remarkable
Dr Richard Apps, neurophysiologist from Bristol University 

Recently four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, were able to move a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes that pick up brain waves.

Mr Nagle's device, called BrainGate, consists of nearly 100 hair-thin electrodes implanted a millimetre deep into part of the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement.

Wires feed the information from the electrodes into a computer which analyses the brain signals.

The signals are interpreted and translated into cursor movements, offering the user an alternative way to control devices such as a computer with thought.

Motor control

Professor John Donoghue, an expert on neuroscience at Brown University, Rhode Island, is the scientist behind the device produced by Cyberkinetics.

He said: "The computer screen is basically a TV remote control panel, and in order to indicate a selection he merely has to pass the cursor over an icon, and that's equivalent to a click when he goes over that icon."

Mr Nagle has also been able to use thought to move a prosthetic hand and robotic arm to grab sweets from one person's hand and place them into another.

Professor Donoghue hopes that ultimately implants such as this will allow people with paralysis to regain the use of their limbs.

The long term aim is to design a package the size of a mobile phone that will run on batteries, and to electrically stimulate the patient's own muscles.

This will be difficult.

The simple movements we take for granted in fact involve complex electrical signals which will be hard to replicate, Dr Richard Apps, a neurophysiologist from Bristol University, the UK, told the BBC News website.

He said there were millions of neurones in the brain involved with movement. The brain chip taps into only a very small number of these.

But he said the work was extremely exciting.

"It's quite remarkable. They have taken research to the next stage to have a clear benefit for a patient that otherwise would not be able to move.

"It seems that they have cracked the crucial step and arguably the most challenging step to get hand movements.

"Just to be able to grasp an object is a major step forward."

He said it might be possible to hone this further to achieve finer movements of the hand.

Matthew Nagel's story is featured in a Frontiers programme on BBC Radio Four on Wednesday 13 April, 2005, at 2100 BST.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/4396387.stm

['EclipZe]

that crazy

[rafsta]

anyone seen robocop ? all they need to do now is connect a brain to a machine body...

[MANBEARPIG.]

anyone seen robocop ? all they need to do now is connect a brain to a machine body...

.....didnt they?

[Don Seer]

anyone seen robocop ? all they need to do now is connect a brain to a machine body...

.....didnt they?

you know the line between fact and fiction right?

anyways..


there was a company a while back (italian i think?) that made a mind controlled mouse you could put on your finger.. wasnt accurated enough to use something like windows with yet.. but it came with games and you could play these little sking games by thinking "left" and "right"..

[rafsta]

anyone seen robocop ? all they need to do now is connect a brain to a machine body...

.....didnt they?

you know the line between fact and fiction right?

anyways..


there was a company a while back (italian i think?) that made a mind controlled mouse you could put on your finger.. wasnt accurated enough to use something like windows with yet.. but it came with games and you could play these little sking games by thinking "left" and "right"..

damn thats crazy, didnt know about that...

[The_One]

wow.... yah thats crazy

[Trauma-san]

666 Mark of the Beast.


Revelation 13:16-18
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the MARK, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Rev. 13:16-18

[The_One]

                    Your crazy homie... I missed the part about mind control chips

[Trauma-san]

Who's talking about mind control chips? 

[The_One]

fuckin forget it homie

[Trauma-san]

No, I want you to explain to me what you were talking about, because you misread my post, and fucked up.  Don't "Forget It Homie" and leave me responsible for your stupidity.


If you don't know what the fuck the "Mark of the Beast" is, maybe you should read up on it, before you call it "Mind Control Chips".  The "Mark Of the Beast" has nothing to do with Mind Control Chips, so either apologize, or explain to me what I'm missing here, Bitch. 

[The_One]

The "Mark Of the Beast" has nothing to do with Mind Control Chips

But the topic of this thead did so your post was crazy and out of place.... no where is  this chip used as an Id or for monitary purposes... so until someone makes a thead about "veripay" then you can reply with your "mark of the beast" bullshit... but until then it doesnt fit.  Nowhere in the bible is the mark of the beast a chip that controls divices by decipering thoughts.  If you still dont understand it fuck off.  I tried to save myself the time respondin in hoping you would just realize your own stupidity, but it is never that simple when your dealing with mental midgets. I hope this clears things up captain dipshit.

[Trauma-san]

The "Mark Of the Beast" has nothing to do with Mind Control Chips

But the topic of this thead did so your post was crazy and out of place.... no where is  this chip used as an Id or for monitary purposes... so until someone makes a thead about "veripay" then you can reply with your "mark of the beast" bullshit... but until then it doesnt fit.  Nowhere in the bible is the mark of the beast a chip that controls divices by decipering thoughts.  If you still dont understand it fuck off.  I tried to save myself the time respondin in hoping you would just realize your own stupidity, but it is never that simple when your dealing with mental midgets. I hope this clears things up captain dipshit.

Oh, a challenge!

Mind control chips is what you said, dumbfuck.  These chips don't control your mind, and the "Mark of the Beast" could be as simple as the number "666" in the serial code of the chip. 

I'm getting NOTHING implanted in my body (even though I know that sounds odd to someone like you, who likes a warm dick implanted in his every once in a while), because it could be the "mark of the beast".

So me saying "Mark of the Beast" definately is on topic, it's just your feeble child's mind is thinking 5 steps behind, like usual.  I say "Like Usual" not because I've invested the time to read any of your other posts, or have any knowledge of someone on your level.. simply, you're below me.  I say "Like Usual" because I can tell by your one or two posts here that stupidity is a family trait in your case, so for that, I'm sorry for picking on a crip so hard, and I'm not talking about any gangs, son. 

[The_One]

These chips use the mind to control (mind control).. perhaps its you that "fucked up" when interpereting my post or did you not even read the article.  You failed to mention a connection even still between this chip here and the chip described in revelation,  you would stand better ground if you would use infromation and logic to get your point across, not "clever" punch lines.  This isn't a rap son.  The chip here serves no monitary purpose (i.e. "no man might buy and sell, save he had the mark"), credit cards are a closer bet to fit the description than this and like i said veripay.

Why can't someone make a breakthrough in technology without some religous nut tellin him he is The first horseman of the apocalypse.    Go pick up a new hobby or watch one of those low budget second coming films, cause as creative as you are trying to be, these connections do not fit.  Guess to you this all fits real well to the apocalyptic story, the new pope will be the anti-christ too? 

I'm through infroming your ass via this pseudo-net beef.. if you wanna go get educated I suggest you do some of your own research and then you can refrain from making dumb ass comments that don't connect.

And as far as you not getting the chip... good no one is asking you to.  Leave it to the people with paralysis and prosthetic limbs as the post suggested, so that they can use it to regain motion.  And when they do, don't be an asshole and tell them that they are following satan.