I'm not sure about you mate but me I am certainly not one.....yet LOL

Humanoid

I believe it was Leonardo Da Vinci that said technology is an extension of the hand (At least that is what he said on the Startreck holadec lol). So by that logic we have been part technology since man first started using tools.

I think a more accurate term would be that technology has been part of us since man first started using tools.

And man is hardly exclusive to using tools; many primates, as well as some other animals, can as well (for example, chimpanzees fish out ants/termites with sticks), although non seem to have the mental capacity or imagination to use tools for anything but to directly acquire sustinance.

Who says this would discourage us to exercise?
These new technologies does exercises our brains.
and what about our physical body?
Do you really think we will sit on a wheel chair or a mind-controlled machine all day long?
Do you think we never walk again and never miss the relaxation of exercise?
Do you really think kids will stop playing who will run faster, or can you chase me....and throw down all physical body/sport competitions such as basket ball?
No we won't... things still happen, we have machines but we still work.

http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/css/bci/

Look at thiss..

Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) enable motor disabled and healthy persons to operate electrical devices and computers directly with their brain activity. BCI recognizes and classifies different brain activation patterns associated with real movements and movement attempts made by tetraiplegic persons. One of their aims is to examine whether subjects with no previous experience of BCIs could achieve satisfactory performance after a short training period. The picture demonstrates a BCI in use.

The user has a EEG cap on. By thinking about left and right hand movement the user controls the virtual keyboard with her brain activity.

It would be important to understand the signals used in BCI applications. They have concentrated on motor cortex activity. Like most other BCI groups, they measure the electric activity of the brain using electroencephalography (EEG). They have also examined the feasibility of magnetoencephalography, MEG (see this picture), for BCI use.


Subject is being prepared for MEG experiment. EEG is also recorded.

Feedback plays an important role when learning to use a BCI. In BCI training, the most commonly used feedback modality is visual feedback. Visual attention, however, might be needed for application control: to drive a wheelchair, to observe the environment, etc. It would be important to also test other feedback modalities. They have started to do tests with haptic feedback.



An experiment where the subject receives tactile stimuli to the lower neck while learning to control a robot wheelchair in a simulated environment.