Brain Chip Offers Hope for Paralyzed

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Admiral Valdemar wrote:
LordShaithis wrote:I want a brain-chip! But make it wireless, and give it text-messaging. Robot telepathy for the win.
I send spam text messages for useless products. Your brain overheats. I laugh evilly.
That's why I won't get anything like that installed in my head until we can set the software to be auto-denial unless authorized.
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Now all we need is some 5 year old japanese kids, a distinctly God-unfearing daddy, an angel in the antarctic-- uh oh, no apocalypse happened in 2000. I guess i'll have to settle for a neurohelment and 100 tons of gleaming battlemech.

Seriously though, although these types of experiments have been going on for quite some time already, i'd be surprised if some kind of direct-brain-controlled prosthetic limb or quadriplegic exoskeleton doesn't appear in the next decade or so. If anything, it gives a new sense to the term 'zombie machine'. In the future, spamming will consist of your best friend suddenly having a seizure and shouting about penis enlargement and Nigerian royalty.
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LiveScience.com wrote:Interestingly, in the beginning, the monkey’s restrained arms would twitch – as if they were trying to reach and grab the food. But after a day with the robotic arm, the monkey was completely relaxed.
Monkey boxing just won't be the same without real arms.
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Winston Blake wrote:In the future, spamming will consist of your best friend suddenly having a seizure and shouting about penis enlargement and Nigerian royalty.
That's getting put in my signature.
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Molyneux wrote:
Winston Blake wrote:In the future, spamming will consist of your best friend suddenly having a seizure and shouting about penis enlargement and Nigerian royalty.
That's getting put in my signature.
Hooray, my first sig quote! Clearly i'm now just a few small steps away from supermodship and then a duel-to-the-death with DW, after which i remake SDN in my own image.
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Molyneux wrote: That's why I won't get anything like that installed in my head until we can set the software to be auto-denial unless authorized.
Fuck that, the only way I'd even begin to consider it is if all data on the chip was stored on ROM and it was impossible to install anything at all.
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It's only a matter of time until I can grief-post Tubgirl directly into your brain!!!

Muahahahaha!
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