The Future of Putting Chips Inside Our Brains

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 27, 2007 @05:20PM from the sounds-like-fun dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers at the University of Florida (UF) have developed chips which someday might be inserted in the brains of people affected by epilepsy or who have lost a limb. These neuroprosthetic chips 'can interpret signals in the brain and stimulate neurons to perform correctly.' The University claims this is the future of medicine. This is maybe a little bit extreme. Just the same, the researchers are already studying these chips with rats and hope to have a prototype ready within 4 years that could be tested on humans."

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This is not the first of its kind by CaputNoodle · 2007-07-27 19:44 · Score: 2, Informative

Read about a brain implant that has already been tested in humans: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=182802 &p=irol-newsArticle_print&ID=1026764&highlight=