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Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface
jd writes "In a major breakthrough, neurologists are reporting that they can decypher neurological impulses into speech with an 80% accuracy. A paralyzed man who is incapable of speech has electrodes implanted in his brain which detect the electrical pulses in the brain relating to speech. These signals are then fed into computers which covert these pulses into signals suitable for speech synthesis. As a biotech marvel, this is astonishing. Depending on the rate of development it is possible to imagine Professor Hawking migrating to this, as it would be immune to any further loss of body movement and would vastly accelerate his ability to talk. On the flip-side, direct brain I/O is also a major step towards William Gibson's Neuromancer and other cyberpunk dark futures."
80% accuracy is NOWHERE near good enough.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1656208
So basically, -1 troll/offtopic is really slashdots way of saying "I hate that you thought of something before me."
Wait a second... that's still more than I have
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
What he doesn't say is that he met her while she was in the coma. Naturally, they married because she ended up carrying their child...