Braingate - Technology to help quadriplegic persons

Goosestaf

Apr 7 2005, 04:55 PM

wow, thats pretty hardcore.
i mean the things u cud do with that type of tevchnolgoy are endless.
But there r probably side affects of using it for long amoutns of time, like head aches etc also if the tech was mass marketed ppl cud get amazingly lazy.

just thinking of all the applicatiosn for this tech is koo. u cudactually have working mech suits and stuff

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Argoth

Apr 7 2005, 06:17 PM

QUOTE(Wyllt @ Apr 7 2005, 09:02 AM)

LOL, ya but what if those little chips in our head turn out to control us instead of the other way around. Hard to defend against the evil robot invasion if we can't lift our cyborg arm, or worse if our cyborg leg kicks our butts.

Seriously though, I see both pros and cons to this tech. It is inevitable, but I am not sure that it is 100% benifitial to the human race. Sure its great for the handycapped, and for that reason alone I say the good outweighs the bad, but what about the guy who gets a robotic arm so he can outpitch any pitcher in the MBA? Sippery sloap that.

Currently the way the chip is designed it doesn't send signals in to the brain but it is obviously very adaptable to do so...

QUOTE(Goosestaf @ Apr 7 2005, 11:55 AM)

wow, thats pretty hardcore.
i mean the things u cud do with that type of tevchnolgoy are endless.
But there r probably side affects of using it for long amoutns of time, like head aches etc also if the tech was mass marketed ppl cud get amazingly lazy.

just thinking of all the applicatiosn for this tech is koo. u cudactually have working mech suits and stuff

There really shouldn't be any headache side effects from this. The interface just reads what your neurons are doing. To control this you use the same process as when you control your arm. And of course people could become extremely lazy! You now the scenario where we evolve into just a brain!

QUOTE(Wyllt @ Apr 7 2005, 12:45 PM)

exactly, just imagine a guy like this Matthew Nagle being able to just get up and walk out of his weelchair thanks to a working mechanical suit.

Of course this also means that there could be military type mech suits available too. Just what the world needs, more military technology (note the sarcasm).

They are attempting to not have to use any sort of prosthetics to get the paralyzed people move again. What they what to do is to be able to send the neuron signals to the rest of the brain bypassing the break in the nervous system. In a way much cooler and nicer for the person, turns them into less of a freak.


The things that I am most worried about the tech is what is most likely to happen, the military side of the technology, here is the dream of one the military people who are supporting the research of this tech:

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At a conference in 2002, Anthony Tether, the director of Darpa, envisioned the military outcome of BCI research. "Imagine 25 years from now where old guys like me put on a pair of glasses or a helmet and open our eyes," Tether said. "Somewhere there will be a robot that will open its eyes, and we will be able to see what the robot sees. We will be able to remotely look down on a cave and think to ourselves, 'Let's go down there and kick some butt.' And the robots will respond, controlled by our thoughts. Imagine a warrior with the intellect of a human and the immortality of a machine."

This was from here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/b...rain&topic_set=

While the advantageous are very numerous this tech. needs to be watch very closely because of the VERY bad things that could come from it......



But still I cannot wait to see if it becomes available to the public!

 

 

 

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