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Implant a Chip in Your Head

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-about-brain-popup-ads dept.

vic_1066 writes "Brain chips sound pretty Orwellian, but the tech has come a long way (Soul eating registration required) in the past few years. Not that I'll be signing up anytime soon to get my head sliced open just for kicks, but if I was massively paralyzed this would be welcome news. If you get a chance, check out Cyberkinetics Inc."

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  1. Isn't It Nueromantic? by bluethundr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will these new "brain chips" be called "microsofts" and plug directly into the back of your skull, coming in all kinds of fashionable colors?

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  2. Brain Chips? by WhytTiger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Homer:MMM... CHIPS

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  3. Re:Make any woman.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have insomnia, you insensitive clod! Oh, wait, you mean having sex with....

  4. That's HILARIOUS! Thanks! Best /. joke ever by jonskerr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    btw, everybody check out Neil Stephenson's book Interface he wrote under the name Stephen Bury. According to Wikipedia, that's a collaboration with J Frederick George.

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