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Computer Control Implants for the Paralyzed
unassimilatible writes: "The Boston Globe is reporting that Cyberkinetics Inc. is about to ask federal regulators for permission to start testing a device that would enable paralyzed people to control computers directly with their brains or possibly help them move their limbs. Initially, the device, implanted into the brains of paralyzed people, will help them control a cursor on a screen or play video games. Researchers believe the technology could one day enable paralyzed people to type, control lights and heating controls, maneuver wheelchairs, or even manipulate robotic arms. I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004."
I claimed I could beat the smartest man in the world at unreal tourney.
Now they have to go and take that from me.
Now, sharks can control those laser beams on their heads too!
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic paraplegic overlords.
That Stephen Hawking is a QuakeMaster!
I always wanted to see him matched against Christopher Reeves in Celebrity Deathmatch.
I, for one, look forward to playing Stephen Hawking in Unreal Tournament 2004.
I didn't realize that you meant playing AGAINST Hawking at first, and I got an image in my head of a polygonal guy in a wheelchair with a robotic arm holding a monstrous gun zipping all over the screen. It made me chuckle.
Nah, personally, I'd fight Ghandi.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
Hawking vs Davros! Oh yeah...
The winner plays Captain Christopher Pike.
(I'm such a geek. *sigh*)
He thinks in more dimensions than you've got limbs. You'd be toast in a minute.
Lets hope that Gates doesn't get into his head that this is potentially life extending though. Think about it, when you're old and feeble, your drones can have just come off the assembly line. Then again, running Windows on his implants might be fitting punishment.
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Computer Controls Implants in Wife..
"When the kids are away, i set them to DD. But if there's company over or Sally is going out with co-workers, I like to bring 'em down to a conservative B.
I predict that lazy people will become even lazier when they no longer have to even move their finger to change the channel on the TV.
Microsoft, the RIAA and the MPAA will fight to have your brain DRM'd so that you can't even think about their products without paying the licensing fees.
Brain hacking will be the next big teenage geek sport with Sobig2010 causing major epileptic fits around the world.
All pretenses of religion will be dropped for the truely important holy crusade of MacHeads vs Penguinistas vs MSsheep. Who will own the source code to your brain?
Ken: You've *ruined*... You...
Buffy: Hey, Ken, wanna see my impression of Gandhi?
(crushes his skull with a club)
Lily: Gandhi?
Buffy: Well, you know, if he was really pissed off.
...shamelessly lifted from the Buffyverse Dialog Database
"For every right, an equal responsibility..."
I, for one, welcome our new quadriplegic-cybernetic overlords.
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