rhea137: Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines. Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product. “The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs. (via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

rhea137:

Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines.

Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product.

“The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs.

(via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

rhea137: Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines. Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product. “The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs. (via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

rhea137:

Within the next decade, we are likely to see a new kind of implant, designed for healthy people who want to merge with machines.

Schalk is a champion of the ECoG implant because, unlike other devices, it does not pierce brain tissue; instead it can ride on top of the brain-blood barrier, sensing the activity of populations of neurons and passing their chatter to the outside world, like a radio signal. Schalk says this is the brain implant most likely to evolve into a consumer product.

“The burr hole in the skull will be small,” Schalk told me enthusiastically, as if urging me to get one of the plugs.

(via The New York Times article “The Cyborg in Us All,” By Pagan Kennedy)

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    oh my fucking fuck.
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    “Fingers!” Gerwin Schalk sputtered, waving his hands around in the air. “Fingers are made to pick up a hammer.” He...
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    Filed under “Coolifying.” (That’s a combination of “Cool” and “Terrifying”)
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    I’ve always wanted a calculator in my brain. Or a netbook. But then all these rich assholes would coming up to me with...
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    I was totally reading about this last night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain–computer_interface
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    what the…. noooooooo
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    Oh fuck yeah, datajacks.
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    Anyone did not watch enough mindcontrol-future movies,dark fiction,”they live”-like movies? be right back, hacking your...
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    your kids are going to have internet implants and I will be shaking my cane at them like a motherfucker
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