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Warwick Gets a Few More Wires

Posted by michael on from the tired-of-reading-cyborg-submissions dept.

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.

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  1. Wow... by swordboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  2. Hope he never comes to Canada by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better not try to fly from Newfoundland to Toronto, if he knows what's good for him.

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    1. Re:Hope he never comes to Canada by ender81b · · Score: 4, Funny

      100 wires embedded in his wrist
      also doesn't sound like a good idea.

      would YOU want a computer to always know what your wrists where doing? Didn't think so =)

  3. Old News by viper21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Emotional Spam by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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