http://www.physorg.com/news7746.html

A chip inserted into a patient's brain can allow him or her to control a robotic arm just by thinking. This has enormous implications, seeing as the first test patient is a paralytic, but he has been able to draw and use a computer with this arm. It works by reading the activity of neurons then sending the data to a computer. Some scientists believe that this will lead to an era where all we will have to do is think to accomplish most tasks-including communication. I for one think that this will just make the obesity problem in the U.S. worse, unless they make it so we can just think to excercise.

(Sorry if it seems copied, it's my own summary. It just sounds really formal because I've been writing a formal scientific essay for school and I'm still in that mindset.)

That's amazing. lol The world is going to be very very lazy when that comes out. No one will have to do anything. That is quite an accomplishment. To bad I can't use it today.

Technically, one does think to exercise; the muscles are just responding to what your brain tells them to do. Even if you wouldn't have to think about your actions in order to get your muscles to perform a certain function, you would still feel the physical strain of the exercise.

This "cybernetic" interface chip is an excellent step forward for the impaired, but one must consider the options for misuse, such as someone making themselves into an "indestructable machine", kind of like a RoboCop of sorts. There are, of course, limits to mechanical limbs. In the movies, when someone has a mechanical limb (arm, in this case), they can easily pick up gigantic and heavy objects and fling them as if they were nothing. One must keep in mind that the mechanical arm would still be supported by one's natural bone and muscle structure, so if one tried to pick up something too heavy, chances are they would break a shoulder or shatter their spine. Lugging around a heavy mechanical limb could also have eventual side-effects on the structural system, such as bones becoming shorter due to the extra weight on them.

Even if the mechanical arm wasn't based on the person's own bone structure, such as if it were something separate that was carried around, there would be a limit to the strength of the arm anyway. Science hasn't created an indestructable metal or a single joint capable of lifting an airplane... yet.

lol very true...

this is awsome technology...

but at what cost must we start turning our brain into a remote for anything...

Why dont we just get up off our lazy asses and do it our selves...

People talk about how this could discourage people from exercise. However, with cybernetics that are advanced enough you could work on a computer just by thinking about it, you could do work while say running on a tread mill, going for a bike ride or doing the dishes. Anything that could make me as an individual more productive I say is a big plus. If I could get my school work done say while going on a hike though nature that would be awesome. and it would make school a much more enjoyable experience.

Wow, this is great technology. I dont see myself as ever using it to be a lazy person, but instead Im already thinking of a bunch of things I could do with it. Multitasking, like doing many things at the same time. It would probably be hard at the beginning but once you get the hang of it you will be able to do awesome things with it.

now they are starting to mount chips into humans, though I don't disagree on this for it will certainly help those persons in need of such thing as this, I am afraid time will come everyone will have a chip on their body that will turn us all into a humanoid

Aren't we now?