BrainGate plugs brains into computers

25 Mar, 2005 at 1:49pm ET Article published in Tech

A company in the U.S has developed technology that plugs a human brain into a desktop computer according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The product is aimed at enabling quadriplegics to do things like surf the Web, write e-mails, play video games and operate TV remotes and telephones just by thinking.

We can take someone’s thought and put it on a screen,” said Tim Surgenor, chief executive of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, manufacturer of the device, which is called BrainGate Neural Interface System.

Cool idea. Such a lazy one though, at least for those of us who are lucky enough to have the ability to operate computers the conventional way. Let’s hope it can really help benefit the lives of all those disability stricken folk out there.

Source: Washtimes

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25 Mar 2005 ~ 1:52pm BuddyJ Man, now quadrapalegics are gonna rule the FPS gaming scene. All they have to do is think it and BAM! - headshot. :bawling:
25 Mar 2005 ~ 2:42pm RWB I saw something like this a while back, it takes some getting used to... but it can somehow sence certain types of thought patterns... I don't know for sure. But basically, you can urge a mouse to move across the screen.

The way it was mentioned it seemed to only work on one thing at a time. A mouse but no buttons... that was years ago though Can't wait till I have one of these

Just read it and damn

The system requires a surgeon to drill a hole in the patient's head and implant a chip on the surface of the brain area responsible for moving arms and hands.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 5:04pm MountainDew Yeah i saw an article in Wired about a quadrapalegic with that, took him only a couple days to get used to it! oh, and he pwns at pong.
25 Mar 2005 ~ 5:11pm BuddyJ Imagine explaning how a you lost to a quadrapalegic playing pong. You'd be laughed out of every bar in town.
26 Mar 2005 ~ 6:06pm Private_Snoball All I can say is wow. Go tell this to a really old person, 5 bucks says they ahve a hard attack.
27 Mar 2005 ~ 12:02am Liquid81 When the technology is perfected I will buy it. Instead of laying in bed trying to fall asleep, I will lay there and hack the world. Imagine working as fast as you think. Mind blowing. Maybe then I wont have a bunch of unfinished projects because I have the attention span of a flea.
27 Mar 2005 ~ 4:38am bothered

Private_Snoball wrote:

All I can say is wow. Go tell this to a really old person, 5 bucks says they ahve a hard attack.

A hard attack? Have you one of these implants? what were you thinking?
2 Apr 2005 ~ 4:25pm zjay fuck u all