This guy is a great self-publicist. Recently he walked around with some circuitry in him that allowed himself to be tracked. So what is new? This was being done years ago with 'smart badges' which had a major advantage - you can take them off! Now he wants to record and replay nerve signals. Again, this is nothing new. Devices to give movement in paralysed limbs by electrical control of muscles has been under investigation for some time. As for recording and replaying emotions - unless he has some special understanding of the brain that thousands of specialists don't - this is incredibly exaggerated stuff. This guy likes to promote himself as some kind of 'cyborg' because he puts electronic circuitry under his skin. I guess the thousands of people who have pacemakers and other well-established devices don't count? Good publicity can be of great benefit to science, but this kind of overhyped stuff has, I believe, a negative effect.
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This guy is a great self-publicist. Recently he walked around with some circuitry in him that allowed himself to be tracked. So what is new? This was being done years ago with 'smart badges' which had a major advantage - you can take them off! Now he wants to record and replay nerve signals. Again, this is nothing new. Devices to give movement in paralysed limbs by electrical control of muscles has been under investigation for some time. As for recording and replaying emotions - unless he has some special understanding of the brain that thousands of specialists don't - this is incredibly exaggerated stuff. This guy likes to promote himself as some kind of 'cyborg' because he puts electronic circuitry under his skin. I guess the thousands of people who have pacemakers and other well-established devices don't count? Good publicity can be of great benefit to science, but this kind of overhyped stuff has, I believe, a negative effect.