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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/12/2006 : 15:41:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
I think the actual next step is to send information back to the brain. Once this is accomplished, I think we will be pretty darn close to making a hand that looks and acts real. Or maybe even better than the real thing.
Actually, this has recently been done, wirelessly through the skull via electromagnetic signalling. It was done in Japan. I'll try to find a reference.
Edited to add: So far, I've found this, from this 2004 page in "Popular Science," though it's not the Japanese research I recalled earlier:
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. . . In work sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), neuroscientist Mark George and colleagues at the Medical University of South Carolina have designed a lightweight electromagnetic coil that could someday be mounted inside a pilot's helmet to clear the tired aviator's head. This transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) machine delivers microsecond pulses of energy a few centimeters into its wearer's brain, inducing electrical activity in brain cells. Studies have shown that triggering a magnetic pulse right before a person has to hit a button in response to a sound can improve reaction times by 5 to 10 percent, "as if you've primed that part of the brain to act," George says.
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/12/2006 16:13:21 |
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