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Working Nerve Chip

Posted by timothy on from the unnerving-photo dept.

poetic writes: "Two scientists from Munich have succeeded in creating a nerve chip with silicon and snail nerves. The cells were hindered from growing away from the silicon with a plastic fence. They managed to get a signal to go from silicon through a neural circuit and back to the chip again. Cute, one step closer to a decent uplink! See the abstract at Nature's site."

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  1. Broad band Shmodband! by TheLoneCabbage · · Score: 2, Funny

    And we think were adicted to broadband!!!
    Heck right now I can't find a place to eat without the internet, and now were getting this much closer to wireing ourselves into the network.

    Can you imagine what having SlashDot on the brain will be like once this technology get's some where? (of course we'll need a better way to get rid of flame bait)

    Of course then MS will come out with Windows '84 and it will only crash your mind once in a while... "Passport for your brain! It's just not for violating your financial privacy any more!!"

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    1. Re:Broad band Shmodband! by guttentag · · Score: 2, Funny
      The phenomenon known as "slashdotting" would become a crime punishable by death in Texas:

      "The governor is calling for the arrest and prosecution of some 500 people around the world for the mortal slashdotting of a Houston software engineer."
    2. Re:Broad band Shmodband! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      This much advancement in human to machine interfaces and the thought of connecting all the brains together to form one vast network is fairling interesting. Soon we will have a true Borg network and conquor worlds on end... Neato! =)

      Hrm.. lets see here... we won't have to deal with raceism (Everyone will be assimilated). We won't have to worry about a money system (What would zombies do with money?). We can make that neat voice of everyone talking together (Great for intimidating the enimies). And who needs privacy? *grins evily* Oh, there are many things this could bring for the sake of man kind.....

      -misspeler

  2. Waste by Herstel · · Score: 3, Funny

    The chip's cells will need food. Therefore the chip will produce some waste, we'll need odour eliminators. "CountryBouquet air freshener" by AMD.

  3. But the only problem is... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two scientists from Munich have succeded in creating a nerve chip with silicon and snail nerves.

    But the only problem is the slowness of the propagation.


    Next year, they are going to try the same experiment with rabbit nerves, to see if there is a speed improvement.

  4. hmm has anyone ... by anshil · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... already patented the 10base-T Interface on the human body? Hmm I guess I'll immediatly rush to the patent office, and get also USB, Firewire and for the sake of it good old RS232 for direct humanoid interfacing.

    Remember you don't have to bring a proof of work to patent something, just have to wait somebody else does.

    Maybe the man-page will get a new meaning in the future?

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  5. thought taxes by suzerain · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really want a brain implant, too. (Yeah, and I suppose the wheelchair-bound can walk, too -- and have brain implants at the same time!).

    But then I thought about the DMCA, and how I'll get in argument with my friends, as usual. We'll see an 80 year-old Anthony Edwards, of ER fame, on the screen and we'll try to figure out what crappy '80s movie he was in, and it'll rack our brains, and then up will pop a message from AOLTimeWarnerMicrosoftDisneySonyCBS Inc. that will say, "If you'd like to remember the movie Anthony Edwards starred in in the late '80s, we can provide the answer for 25 cents. It will automatically be deducted from your credit card."

    I'll try to remember the answer, but finally, in desperation to beat my friends to the punch, I'll grudgingly pay the 25 cents to remember the answer, but just as the credit card is authorizing, my friend will yell out, "Revenge of the Nerds!"

    But it'll be too late to cancel my thought order! And meanwhile, in my brain, I'll hear, "We have noted in our records that you couldn't recall the film 'Revenge of the Nerds', which is the intellectual property of AOLTimeWarnerMicrosoftDisneySonyCBS Inc. In the future, if you think about 'Revenge of the Nerds', be advised that you will be charged 25 cents. Thank you and have a lovely day."

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