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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. frost p17t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    luzers!

  2. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    damn, missed the first

  3. Empty Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. !equations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."-- Unknown

    "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." -- Calvin & Hobbes

    "Everything worthwhile has already been invented."
    -- director of the US Patent Office, 1899

    "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take" -- Adlai Stevenson

    "He who laughs last, thinks slowest."
    --Anonymous

    "Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
    --Dark Helmet

    "I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
    -- Jerry Garcia

    "Games lubricate the body and the mind."
    --Benjamin Franklin

    "The Royal Tenenbaums is like Einstein after a motorcycle accident; bits of genius splattered for miles, but not much body. And who wouldn't slow to look at that?"
    --The Filthy Critic

    "A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there " --William James (1842-1910)

    These are picked out for the slashdot crowd, there are others, most about midgets, that people may or may not enjoy.

    Ben Franklin rules... 'Beer is proof god loves us and wants us to be happy'.

  5. This article is so out of date.. by joshua404 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .. that when it was written, VA Linux's stock was actually worth something.

    1. Re:This article is so out of date.. by linzeal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Where do you live, an antartic research station?

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      An Education is the Font of All Liberty
  6. Re:For Sale: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The reason this wasn't first post is due to the fact that the poster is a little slow in the mathmatics department.

  7. Re:umm... by loraksus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    dyslexics untie!
    Sorry ;)

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  8. MOD PARENT DOWN!!!1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    EWWW gross!