[OT] Real life cyborg monkey

[Tsyr]

Ooh, that's cool as well. However, the patient took "months of training". It seems that the technique used on the monkey is a lot more effective. The effect that the neurons around the electrodes can adapt to control motion is likely a major boost.

On the other hand, they werent jamming hundres of wires into his brain, either, which is pretty cool. Also considering that they were having to get his brain signals to do something on something organic (his arm) rather than a mechanical object of which every parameter was exactly known...

 

[Magius del Cotto]

IIRC, there's been some success with plugging a standard AV interpreter into a person's brain and letting them work the visuals with that, but I couldn't say for sure. Has definite advantages (I'm thinking more the TechnoMages from Babylon 5 more than anything else - the stuff they do is fun!), but there are disadvantages as well (hit with an EMP and you're pretty much helpless, probably painful insertion process at first, you'd have to keep upgrading yourself to keep up, etc).
Might be cool, but will probably be a big waste for quite a while.
Magius out.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Far cooler, IMO:

Well, "Paralysis Victim Moves Arm" just doesn't have the tabloid catchiness of "Cyborg Monkeys Control Robots With Their Brains!"

-Hyp.