An Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains

Jason Koebler writes: The brains of four rats have been interconnected to create a "Brainet" capable of completing computational tasks better than any one of the rats would have been able to on its own. Explains Duke University's Dr. Miguel Nicolelis: "Recently, we proposed that Brainets, i.e. networks formed by multiple animal brains, cooperating and exchanging information in real time through direct brain-to-brain interfaces, could provide the core of a new type of computing device: an organic computer. Here, we describe the first experimental demonstration of such a Brainet, built by interconnecting four adult rat brains."

Comments

What could possibly go wrong?

[random coward]

Really! What could possibly go wrong?

Quad core cpu?

[Anonymous Coward]

id make a comment about mice being input devices but this is just rediculos

Re:imagine

[Dracos]

Ahem, Beorat cluster.

Re:How long till someone ports Doom?

[ameoba]

Quake would be a better option. The original Doom had poor mouse support.