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That's Using Your Head
broKenfoLd writes "In an earlier post, we looked at the future of Matrix-esque control over computers. In that article, monkeys got to play the games. Today at UW in Madison, WI, it's the humans who are playing video games just by thinking about it. While this is cool for us power gamers, it has many more impressive applications, including limb replacement."
But the gamer side of me is telling me "where the hell do I sign up, I'm grabbing my car keys as I type this."
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This can't be allowed to reach the mainstream. I like using a mouse and keyboard for my FPS games. You see, when I get tagged 27 times by the same guy, have negative experience and my only kills are to my teammates, I like to have something to blame. I have gotten quite good at it.
For example: Spilled Dew on my keyboard. Darn kid dropped my mouse and there is the rollers don't quite work right. Or my favorite: holographic mouse pad wreaks havoc on my optical mouse.
Don't get me wrong... I can come up with lots of excuses. But yelling about lag only works for so long. Bad monitor? Maybe... but not as good as a story about Mountain Dew.
Heed my warning. Just say 'no' to gadgets implanted into your brain.
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I hate double posting but it just occured to me that I need to make an obligatory reference to the ramifacations of these developments in terms of malicious applications. Think about a computer with a virus and then attaching that directly to your brain. Scary.
... my head asplode.
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
Jet Li and I fought a battle in our minds. I won.
"Plus, then the lights flashed, he turned evil, and we had to shoot him in the head with a plasma gun."
Oh yeah, free ipods good http://www.freeipods.com/?r=12669514/
Brain surgery to play video games better?
/Billy hurls himself down stairs
"Please Mom!"
"No Billy. That system is designed for paralyzed people not so you can play video games better"
Checkmate
Then someday they will develop such a game that is wearable and highly addictive. Soon it will incapacitate the entire crew of the Enterprise, making it free for the taking by the clever game-developer aliens!
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
The final comment was "This is a significant development", but in what way?
Ender will soon be here!
Think about THAT.
I've been thinking about games ever since I was born...
*puzzled*
Apple built a platform for their ideas, Google built one for everyone's.
"You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!"
But you are old, right?
Ofcourse everyone knows that multiple apendages could be much more useful in the budding niche of multi-wang pronography. Think of the possibilities TVTA!
Just great...now when my Halo2 scores are still:
Kills/Killed
2/25
Instead of listening to weedsmoker36 pop off I'll now get to hear chest thumping chimps.
Which rock have you been hiding under. ;)
Thats EXACTLY what RFID is really for
liqbase
Isn't that exactly what this fuc .. BBZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT .. v-chip is meant to be for?
liqbase
Until some idiot does the first: ping -f /medula
This technology is going to advance really fast...
:P
When they get it to the PRON stage of testing
So you're saying that you want to become a beowolf cluster?
Seriously though, an implant that could do this would make telepathy somewhat of a reality. How cool is that?
Yeah, until your neighbor's cordless phone starts sending strange thoughts into your head.
with an artificial silicon breast, doesn't it? ;]
You can't handle the truth.