Paralyzed Woman's Neural Implant Still Firing After 1,000 Days

[FogHornG36]

ummm makes me think of the metallica song "one" if we connect it to a keyboard they will just spam "KILL ME KILL ME KILL ME"

 

[Aeshi]

Does anyone else find the way the plug thing just sits there partially buried in her head somewhat disturbing?

 

[lucky_sharm]

Does anyone else find the way the plug thing just sits there partially buried in her head somewhat disturbing?

As long as it isn't painful, I wouldn't mind having one too.

 

[Ralphfromdk]

Score 1 for science. Next step; Stem-cells that can fix the broken bits.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Neat. Actually, once i was surfing the internet and i saw this sort of headset thing that is suppose to do the same thing... I look for it if anyone is interested.

Edit: Here it is, it's called Mind Technologies Inc. [http://mindtechnologiesinc.com/]... sounds like the proper name for one of those "Evil Genius going-to-take-over-the-world hidden lair" deal.

@Gigastar... if your not going to keep those hands of yours anymore, can I have them?! =)

Huh.. I was wondering who else had those, but then I noticed your link is for a form of software.

It's meant to be used with a device I already knew about.
(The Emotiv Epoc headset. - Which, essentially is a 16 electrode EEG grid. It can do some really funky stuff though.)

The device itself, in other words, is from this company:
http://www.emotiv.com/

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Welp, add wireless internet to that and you get Ghost in the Shell, so I'm looking forward to when I can go full cyborg in my '50s and prolong my life for another 200 years or whatever.

 

[Angel Molina]

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Huh.. I was wondering who else had those, but then I noticed your link is for a form of software.

It's meant to be used with a device I already knew about.
(The Emotiv Epoc headset. - Which, essentially is a 16 electrode EEG grid. It can do some really funky stuff though.)

The device itself, in other words, is from this company:
http://www.emotiv.com/

I went the online store there and the device (including software) costs $300!!! (or about 200 euros)... That's crazy expensive, but pretty cool never-the-less... I think I'll wait for the price to drop to 50 bucks or so. =)

 

[CrystalShadow]

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Huh.. I was wondering who else had those, but then I noticed your link is for a form of software.

It's meant to be used with a device I already knew about.
(The Emotiv Epoc headset. - Which, essentially is a 16 electrode EEG grid. It can do some really funky stuff though.)

The device itself, in other words, is from this company:
http://www.emotiv.com/

I went the online store there and the device (including software) costs $300!!! (or about 200 euros)... That's crazy expensive, but pretty cool never-the-less... I think I'll wait for the price to drop to 50 bucks or so. =)

Yeah... That's to be expected. It's still the first of it's kind (well, second, really. But this is way more advanced than the other product like it), and kind of a niche product.

It'd have to become mainstream to drop down to a price like that.

Aside from which, it is in effect a low-budget EEG, and a medical EEG with 16 electrodes is more in the region of $20,000+

(Not to mention that efforts to create usable home-made EEG equipment tend to work out to something like $200 per electrode, which is still $2000 or so.)

So... In context it's not really so bad. XD

(Mind you, personally I'd want a developer's license for one of these, which is more like $500 or even $1500)