Jul 142006
A few people have sent me this link about yet another experiment involving a neural implant and a person with a disability. In this particular case, the experiment subject was able to manipulate a robotic arm with his brain impulses. The article does point out a couple downsides of the experiment. First, the chip wasn’t perfectly responsive one hundred percent of the time. Second, the subject had a lot of hardware poking out of his skull to facilitate a cable connection to a computer. As eager as I am to get one of these chips installed inside me so that I can begin my ascendancy to Supreme Commander of the legions of gimp cyborg revolutionaries, I think I’ll wait for the wireless version. I already have a couple of orifices that aren’t factory-standard on this body and I don’t really desire another one. And I don’t think women find exposed gray matter terribly sexy.
