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Cortical Cybernetic Implants

Posted by michael on from the amazing-grace dept.

Floody writes "Wired is running a story with amazing cyberpunk "wow factor." Implanted visual cortex stimulation, complete with "percutaneous pedestal"; a metal jack installed directly into the skull. Where can I get a night vision enhancement module for this with HUD and distance finder?" We've posted a couple of previous stories about Dobelle and his work on bionic eyes, but this one has more details: one frame per second, $100,000. Wow.

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  1. I'm waiting for... by MarvinMouse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    when I can sit down at a desk with maybe just a keyboard, and plug in the sound screen and everything directly into my head.

    Sound would be amazing if they could get the entire range (including that which is naturally lost after childhood) to work. Imagine hearing music absolutely perfectly clear. Wouldn't that be awesome. :-)

    And screen would be even better. Considering I have contacts as is, so the screen isn't 100% clear, just good enough.

    Imagine if they could have the screen show up with clarity beyond that of 20/20 or even 20/10 . Movies where everything is perfectly clear. :-)

    If scientists were to actually work on ways to "jack" ourselves in. There are so many things we could do with it. Even just the sheer speed increase of data entry if we just had to think about it.

    The possiblities are endless...

    --
    ~ kjrose