Canadian scientists scan your brain, know how you want to hold your hand
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[quote=Engadget]
O Canada -- your wacky scientists are at it again. And this time, the bright minds over at the University of Western Ontario have their third eye set on a certain precognitive prize. Avoiding the messier open-skull, electrode-imbedding alternative, researchers at the Centre for Brain and Mind employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to successfully predict the action of participants' hands before they'd moved a muscle. After a year of brain-scanning trials, scientists learned to accurately foretell which signals were linked to one of three set actions: grabbing the top of an object, its bottom, or simply reaching out to touch it. Like our clairvoyant cousin's previous beverage-predicting breakthrough, the spoils of this study go to prosthetic limb motion control and the paralyzed who'll use it. We know what you're thinking, but we're not going to make the obvious Thing joke here. Instead, we have to wonder -- What Would Ms. Cleo Do? Full release after the break, but you already knew that.
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[url]http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/05/canadian-scientists-scan-your-brain-know-how-you-want-to-hold-y/[/url]
[quote]the spoils of this study go to prosthetic limb motion control and the paralyzed who'll use it[/quote]
Basically, it will make using this arm closer to reality. we do already have nerve sensing arms with individual finger control as well as wrist control and stuff, but its not as accurate as it could be, and those require functioning nerves. this could be used directly from the brain.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvJEKfT5TI[/media]
[QUOTE=Mattk50;30913554]Basically, it will make using this arm closer to reality. we do already have nerve sensing arms with individual finger control as well as wrist control and stuff, but its not as accurate as it could be.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvJEKfT5TI[/media][/QUOTE]
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We're closer to having fake limbs that can move as fast as a normal limb :buddy:
For science!
Now make that scan into something that you can fit in your eye and create super soldiers that can tell your every move...
Oh, and yea, hop on that prosthetic limb stuff aswell.
Rock on Canada!
Unfortunately our technology seems to be moving faster than our understanding for morals. This can go into the wrong hands and exploited to be used for evil. However, those with better moral beliefs will take advantage of this technology and use it for good.
Hopefully, there won't be problems with this technology, but I am pessimistic.
[QUOTE=redBadger;30914530]Unfortunately our technology seems to be moving faster than our understanding for morals. This can go into the wrong hands and exploited to be used for evil. However, those with better moral beliefs will take advantage of this technology and use it for good.
Hopefully, there won't be problems with this technology, but I am pessimistic.[/QUOTE]
What exactly is evil about replacement limbs?
[QUOTE=Nerts;30914563]What exactly is evil about replacement limbs?[/QUOTE]
I said the technology, not the limb itself.
This is some pretty cool science.
[QUOTE=redBadger;30914530]Unfortunately our technology seems to be moving faster than our understanding for morals. This can go into the wrong hands and exploited to be used for evil. However, those with better moral beliefs will take advantage of this technology and use it for good.
Hopefully, there won't be problems with this technology, but I am pessimistic.[/QUOTE]
The wrong [i]hands[/i]? :rolleye:
Don't kid yourself man! And what the hell are you on about any who? anything can and will be used for evil, no matter what it is.
Are you high?
[QUOTE=Mattk50;30913554][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvJEKfT5TI[/media][/QUOTE]
Reminds me of how the military robots in Avatar functioned
I never asked for this.
Just kidding, I've asked for this every day.
I would make a Fox News joke about how Canadians can read minds, but garry removed the emote.
The more of this stuff I see, the more I begin to believe the tech picture in 2027 from Deus Ex is going to be reality.
We're really not that far off.
So, with this technology I could design a device to cheat at slaps?
Good god man, It's the future.
Would be funny if soon enough sports like running will be just like Formula-1 - who can make the fastest pair of legs?
[QUOTE=werner;30916552]Would be funny if soon enough sports like running will be just like Formula-1 - who can make the fastest pair of legs?[/QUOTE]
I'd be sure athletics organisations would ban them as they have with drugs.
If this works I'm cutting off my arm.
[editline]5th July 2011[/editline]
been wanting that shit since star wars
[QUOTE=redBadger;30914530]Unfortunately our technology seems to be moving faster than our understanding for morals. This can go into the wrong hands and exploited to be used for evil. However, those with better moral beliefs will take advantage of this technology and use it for good.
Hopefully, there won't be problems with this technology, but I am pessimistic.[/QUOTE]
How often do you think before you post?
Its a start.
Does computer predicts if one wants to fap?
[QUOTE=Matrix374;30913992]We're closer to having fake limbs that can move as fast as a normal limb :buddy:[/QUOTE]
Well to be honest we will have to figure out how to replicate the feeling of touch first, but it's a nice step, even though I'm pretty sure I've seen similar tech in the past.
[editline]6th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=redBadger;30914571]I said the technology, not the limb itself.[/QUOTE]
That's kind of what he meant...
Full body sensor suits, robotic commandos, the future of warfare.
i like how my post got more winner's than the OP.
crappy ops thesedays.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;30940428]i like how my post got more winner's than the OP.
crappy ops thesedays.[/QUOTE]
Well you did have a video.
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