BrainGate Develops a Wireless Brain-Computer Interface. A few paralyzed patients could soon be using a wireless brain-computer interface able to stream their thought commands as quickly as a home Internet connection.
After more than a decade of engineering work, researchers at Brown University and a Utah company, Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can be attached to a person’s skull and transmit via radio thought commands collected from a brain implant. Blackrock says it will seek clearance for the system from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, so that the mental remote control can be tested in volunteers, possibly as soon as this year. The tattoo that tingles when your phone rings. The Freaky, Bioelectric Future of Tattoos. Stephen Hawking Predicts Digital Mind Upload Possible. Stephen Hawking predicts that digital mind uploading may be possible, just not anytime soon.
It is obvious that humanity is on the verge of unlocking the mysteries of the mind. We may unlock the key to digital immortality as well. Humanity appears to be destined to become immortal consciousness in one form or another. DARPA, IBM Neurosynaptic Chip and Programming Language Mimic the Brain. DARPA, IBM Neurosynaptic Chip and Programming Language Mimic the Brain Engineering is often inspired by nature—the hooks in velcro or dermal denticles in sharkskin swimsuits.
Then there’s Darpa's SyNAPSE project. Not content with current computer architecture, SyNAPSE is building a new kind of computer based on the brain. Last year, scientists working on SyNAPSE announced they’d simulated 100 trillion synapses from a monkey brain on Sequoia, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now, instead of simply writing brain-inspired algorithms for traditional systems, they’ve invented an entirely new "neuromorphic" chip, True North, and an accompanying programming language to build applications on it. End of Eating Food. Eating food could be replaced by nanorobot nutrient delivery system.
Sensing Gene Therapy. STOCK.XCHNG, DJEYEWATERSensory disorders can have a profound effect on health and quality of life—but gene therapy may be coming to the rescue.
Gene therapy’s success in treating blindness disorders –many are in late stage trials—gave hope to a field deterred by early missteps. And now gene therapy researchers are expanding their gaze to focus on all manner of sensory diseases. In the last year, researchers have demonstrated successes in using gene therapy to restore function in mice that have lost the ability to hear and smell. Other teams are tackling pain management via gene therapy, hoping to overcome the ever-present problem of opioid tolerance. Some of these therapies are already beginning human trials, and as the challenges of injecting viral vectors and genetic materials into patients are overcome, researchers argue that it may one day be possible to treat anything from deafness to anosmia with a simple injection. An ear for gene therapy. Scientists 'read dreams' using brain scans. Scientists have found a way to "read" dreams, a study suggests.
Researchers in Japan used MRI scans to reveal the images that people were seeing as they entered into an early stage of sleep. Writing in the journal Science, they reported that they could do this with 60% accuracy. Reviewing the Real Superhero Power of Technology. Jenny Beswick March 20, 2013 [Editor's note: this post is a somewhat interesting commercial use of a transhumanist themed infographic to promote a low cost phone service in the UK that was sent to me as an article submission.
While arguably it isn't really an article but rather a quite nonintrusive advertisement for this company, I thought some of its elements were amusing enough to share it. “If Eternal Life Becomes a Medical Possibility, I Will Have It Because I am a Tech Pirate” - ImmortalLife.net. Home > Articles > “If Eternal Life Becomes a Medical Possibility, I Will Have It Because I am a Tech Pirate” Posted: Sat, May 18, 2013 | By: Biohack by Rich Lee I’d say most Grinders [DIY biohackers] are interested in life extension, but it hasnt been a primary focus of the community.
It is an intricate topic. What if Google Could Think Like You Do? The next "space race" might be the race to develop a synthetic model of the human brain - one that Google and Microsoft will participate in, if a report is true.
And instead of trying to beat the Russians, this time the Americans will be racing against the Europeans, who have already announced their plans. The New York Times reported Monday that the Obama Administration is close to announcing the Brain Activity Map, which scientists quoted by the paper say could be on the scale of the The Human Genome Project, a $3.8 billion project to map the human genome that, the Times reported, returned $800 billion in jobs and other benefits. The Brain Activity Map would attempt to document how the brain works, from the tiniest neurons up through how possibly the different regions of the brain communicate with one another. If the project succeeds, the Brain Activity Map might give us an understanding of how the human brain "computes" data through its complex web of neurons. Holy Grail.
Jessa Gamble – Life without sleep. Work, friendships, exercise, parenting, eating, reading — there just aren’t enough hours in the day.
To live fully, many of us carve those extra hours out of our sleep time. Social/mental development. Body Augmentation.