no, it's been done with similar electrode implants too a few decades ago.
but then people stopped doing it, guess why.
Or don't guess, just read The Terminal Man,
by Michael Crichton.
If you are interested in this type of research, please visit our Web site. We provide related information and some of the bacground, from time to time. Amazing that they managed to place their paper in Nature. Then again, it's not so amazing after all, given that the reviewers come from a small circle of buddies - you already discussed similar publications of those businessmen (and a few women serving them) here... come along for the ride in this Brave New World, where Science can be so easily bought...
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A few days ago we posted a prize challenge for people who make good guesses about the identity of Segway Auction Winners.
Compared to that, 500 dollars? from SETI ???
the competition is now over but you can still find Science News (often very relevant to some threads that are enthousiastically debated here) on our site. Please let us know how you like it.
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That Science issue is great here and there but not everywhere, by the way. They refer to Professor Kevin Warwick with so much respect, that they may have influenced him to have the surgery done on him after all:-)
Who knows, otherwise he may have found an excuse to put it off for quite a long time, maybe forever.
The recent issue of Vanity Fair writes about Segway. The writer mentions that Dean Kamen and Doerr were testing on the hilly streets of San Francisco. Does anybody know whether there are videos of Segway riders on such hills?
We are following the Segway related news mainly because of the potential implications of the dynamical stabilization technology on devices that are useful for disabled individuals such as the IBOT. Does anybody know when IBOT is going to be approved by FDA?
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"Professor Warwick (I really this is somewhat different but seems to be essentially the same idea, stimulating nerves to create movement in people struggling with paralysis...my point is merely that Warwick is not the brilliant loner on the revolutionary fronts of scientific acheivement that he makes himself out to be...there are people doing real science all over who don't need the gratification of being in the media--this is a non-story)."
No, actually, sadly enough quite a few of those "serious" scientists crave for their fifteen or so minutes of fame. Check out some of these articles on our
http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/related.htm page.
or http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/blogger.html page.
Most of them are not seeking out publicity like Professor Kevin Warwick, but they don't shy away from Press Releases, and not everything the Press Releases state is always true.
You can read more article about him on our
http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/blogger.html
and
http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/cyborg.htm
pages.
We have been following his rise and although we are trying not to take him very seriously, it is
quite impossible these days. Even Science Magazine
presented a lengthy article about Professor Warwick's "science" in the February 8 special issue.
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no, it's been done with similar electrode implants too a few decades ago. but then people stopped doing it, guess why. Or don't guess, just read The Terminal Man, by Michael Crichton.
actually, no. "scientists" who make science their business will beat lawyers any time.
If you are interested in this type of research, please visit our Web site. We provide related information and some of the bacground, from time to time. Amazing that they managed to place their paper in Nature. Then again, it's not so amazing after all, given that the reviewers come from a small circle of buddies - you already discussed similar publications of those businessmen (and a few women serving them) here ... come along for the ride in this Brave New World, where Science can be so easily bought ...
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if you are interested in related Science news, please come and check out our Web site. Neuroprosthesis News That Science issue is great here and there but not everywhere, by the way. They refer to Professor Kevin Warwick with so much respect, that they may have influenced him to have the surgery done on him after all :-)
Who knows, otherwise he may have found an excuse to put it off for quite a long time, maybe forever.
The recent issue of Vanity Fair writes about Segway. The writer mentions that Dean Kamen and Doerr were testing on the hilly streets of San Francisco. Does anybody know whether there are videos of Segway riders on such hills? We are following the Segway related news mainly because of the potential implications of the dynamical stabilization technology on devices that are useful for disabled individuals such as the IBOT. Does anybody know when IBOT is going to be approved by FDA? http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/blogger.html
"Professor Warwick (I really this is somewhat different but seems to be essentially the same idea, stimulating nerves to create movement in people struggling with paralysis...my point is merely that Warwick is not the brilliant loner on the revolutionary fronts of scientific acheivement that he makes himself out to be...there are people doing real science all over who don't need the gratification of being in the media--this is a non-story)." No, actually, sadly enough quite a few of those "serious" scientists crave for their fifteen or so minutes of fame. Check out some of these articles on our http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/related.htm page. or http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/blogger.html page. Most of them are not seeking out publicity like Professor Kevin Warwick, but they don't shy away from Press Releases, and not everything the Press Releases state is always true.
You can read more article about him on our http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/blogger.html and http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/cyborg.htm pages. We have been following his rise and although we are trying not to take him very seriously, it is quite impossible these days. Even Science Magazine presented a lengthy article about Professor Warwick's "science" in the February 8 special issue.