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Warwick Gets a Few More Wires
teamhasnoi writes "CNN reports that a British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology. (100 wires embedded in his wrist) This apparently enables his nervous system to be linked to a computer, encoding movements like wiggling fingers and feelings like shock and pain, and recorded for the first time. Is this the end of VCR+? Or the beginning of an (unholy) marriage of man and machine?" Warwick has been doing this for five years now.
Right now, I'm wondering how we can use this to grow the appropriate meat chunks based on a user's input...
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That's like asking if anyone has ever used Linux on Slashdot.
Better not try to fly from Newfoundland to Toronto, if he knows what's good for him.
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"...Or the beginning of an (unholy) marriage of man and machine?"
I still can't marry a boyfriend (man and man).
Get your priorities right.
We all know that little kids in Japan already have Sony Playstations grafted into their bodies.
Button sensors in fingertips, a video pipeline into the optic nerves, etc.
It's a big secret, but we all know they are doing it. The reason Sony can't provide a 1000x performance increase to the PS3 is because of the limitations of the human nervous system, not because of some silly thing like computing limitations. You just wait for umbilical attachments for kids so they can work in parallell.
"Mommy, Billy jumped off the couch after a dragon and hurt my belly button!"
I can just imagine the lawsuits.
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His claim that a 2 hr operation proves this is not a publicity stunt does not carry a lot of weight w/me.
The girls at most any local strip club have been through more surgery than that- and it has nothing to do w/noble intentions.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I was kind of hoping that the first cyborg would have a borg-like eyepiece and very tall grey hair, so he could greet humanity with the phrase "HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN !!"
Instead, the first cyborg greets humanity with "I am not a quack! This is real science! No, it's not a publicity stunt! We might actually learn something from this!"
What a let down.
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."
From the register article:
"But wait, where there's a sponsor, there's a commercial opportunity. Tumbleweed, a specialist in secure communications, is providing the technology "vital to ensure the safe transmission of our nervous system signals via the internet," Captain Cyborg says"
They say they want to send "feelings" over the web.
I can't wait until they start sending out emotional spam. I haven't really bought into any of the "enlarge your penis" emails. But if they carry with them a great sense of inadequacy...
who knows?
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Mr. Warwick has just undergone his most extensive and painful 'cyber-surgery' to date. After a gruelling twenty-hour operation, cutting-edge 'cyber-medicine' has managed to give Warwick a prosthetic clue.
The electronic 'micro-chip' helps regulate Warwick's desperate appetite for publicity. Scientists hope that one day, clueless people everywhere will be able to benefit from this technology, including such celebrities as George Bush and the Church of Scientology.
- undoware.ca