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Hardware Implants Mimic Brain Cells

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the memory-upgrade dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PopSci is reporting that Ted Berger, a USC scientist, has been working to engineer a brain implant the mimics the functions of neurons. Early tests on rat brain cells have shown promise, and if successful, Berger's implant could remedy everything from Alzheimer's to absent-mindedness — and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch"

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  1. Had to be done by Darth+Hubris · · Score: 4, Funny

    Press earlobe-eyeball-nose to continue

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  2. Java? by HaeMaker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it run Java?

    1.4? 1.5? Colombian?

  3. Let's do it RIGHT this time! by StefanJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's build DRM into those artificial neurons, so that the Man of the Future loses bladder control and convulsively vomits if he tries to access pirated media.

    1. Re:Let's do it RIGHT this time! by MoodyLoner · · Score: 4, Funny

      I must be running a beta.

      Or do American Idol and Survivor do that to everybody?

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  4. You know..... by LordPhantom · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new hyper-intelligent engineered-brain rat overlords! I've also invested in cheese futures.

  5. Re:Engineered humans? by D4rk+Fx · · Score: 2, Funny

    feel-no-pain specimen....

    Well, I hope that they do leave the pain part out. Otherwise there will be a bunch of robots running around screaming:
    'Why was I programmed to feel pain!'
  6. Re:When was the last time you encountered a glitch by D4rk+Fx · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd had to lose my mind as often as the average PC loses it's.
    I'd say you already do.
  7. Re:When was the last time you encountered a glitch by Elemenope · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, no! Obviously it's the new and highly successful shotgun approach to English grammar! Shotguns are the wave of the future in lingustics; don't you forget!

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  8. Re:unless you are testifying to congress... by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it becomes "Sorry, had a HD crash".

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  9. Re:unless you are testifying to congress... by Divide+By+Zero · · Score: 2, Funny

    General error reading drive C.
    Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? f
    C:\>

    I'm sorry, Senator, I seem to have developed some bad sectors.

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  10. I can have dead brain cells repaired? by Azathfeld · · Score: 3, Funny

    YES! Time to go back off the wagon!

  11. Re:Great mambo Chicken by ciaohound · · Score: 4, Funny

    At what point are you more machine than person?

    Well, if Obi-Wan is any authority on this, I guess it's when you have both arms and legs cut off and you can't live without a breath mask and respirator.

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