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Semiconductor Brain: Nerve Tissue Interfaced With A Computer Chip
Posted on 2006-08-02 06:32:38 in Human Enhancement |
For the first time, scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich coupled living brain tissue to a chip equivalent to the chips that run computers. The researchers under Peter Fromherz have reported this news in the online edition of the Journal of Neurophysiology (May 10, 2006). Continue reading…
Japanese boffins build breakthrough brain-machine interface
Posted on 2006-07-26 08:36:00 in Human Enhancement |
Honda scientists have created a system that will translate thoughts into electrical signals that can be used to control machinery. The technique doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or extensive training - a major advance over past thought-controlled technologies, the company said. Continue reading…
Can technology make us more or less human?
Posted on 2006-03-03 13:39:40 in Human Enhancement |
Will enhancement technologies damage our sense of our humanity; or will they make us better humans, even creating a new breed of super- or post-humans? That was the question asked in a new Demos pamphlet, 'Better Humans?', launched at the Wellcome Trust in London last night. Continue reading…
Image Processing For Applications In Artificial Vision
Posted on 2006-01-25 04:34:13 in Human Enhancement |
For a robot to identify objects in a particular image, it is first necessary that it can "see" them. With this aim, in artificial vision, edge detectors are normally used, i.e. computer programmes that delimit the objects in an image and define the limits between them and the background, and between the different objects themselves. Edurne Barrenechea Tartas from Pamplona has designed one of these edge detectors and, after trials with a wide-ranging set of photographs, she has shown that the results with her design are an improvement on those obtained with other detectors commonly used to date. These results have been published in her PhD thesis, Image processing with interval-valued fuzzy sets. Edge detection. Contrast, which she recently defended at the Public University of Navarra. Continue reading…
Merge With the Machine -- In 2020
Posted on 2005-10-13 07:27:51 in Genetic Engineering | Human Enhancement | Nanotechnology |
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- A photo in Ray Kurzweil's new book about humanity's future shows the author wearing a sandwich board that reads "The Singularity Is Near." "The image pokes fun at the superficial similarity between what I'm saying and millennial predictions," said Kurzweil. Continue reading…
Sound advice for balance problems
Posted on 2005-10-03 13:10:44 in Human Enhancement |
A device worn like a MP3 player could help correct balance problems by signalling when the wearer starts to veer off course. Balance problems are common in the elderly and can also be caused by certain diseases and medications that weaken the sensory signals we use to stay upright. Continue reading…
A 'Black Box' for Humans
Posted on 2005-08-04 10:29:40 in Human Enhancement |
When planes have a problem, it's not usually too hard to figure out what went wrong. That's because every plane has a black box that records exactly what was happening mechanically to the plane at the time. Now, there's a black box for people. This new device known as crew physiologic observation device, or CPOD, keeps track of biological data, such as changes in heart rate, the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream, and how the person is moving. Continue reading…
Bionic suit offers wearers super-strength
Posted on 2005-04-20 16:08:50 in Human Enhancement |
A ROBOT suit has been developed that could help older people or those with disabilities to walk or lift heavy objects. Dubbed HAL, or hybrid assistive limb, the latest versions of the suit will be unveiled this June at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan, which opened last month. A commercial product is slated for release by the end of the year. Continue reading…
Brain Waves Control Video Game
Posted on 2005-04-20 16:04:57 in Human Enhancement |
A video game in which the character is controlled directly from a player Continue reading…
Real 'smart chip' developed, scientists say
Posted on 2004-02-20 07:20:27 in Human Enhancement |
Calgary - Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain. “We discovered that when we used the chip to stimulate the neurons, their synaptic strength was enhanced,” said Naweed Syed, a neurobiologist at the University of Calgary's faculty of medicine. Continue reading…
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