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Wow... now that is freaky...
2004-04-13, 8:57 PM #1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20040413/ap_on_bi_ge/brain_implants

...now that would be so freaky if that became a reality, wouldn't it?

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2004-04-13, 9:05 PM #2
Looks pretty cool

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2004-04-14, 12:45 AM #3
It will be so easy for someone to take that little operation and use it for more malevolent purposes...

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2004-04-14, 10:14 AM #4
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Avenger:
Looks pretty cool</font>




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2004-04-14, 10:27 AM #5
If I'm not mistaken, they've been doing this sort of thing on lab rats for a good while, now.

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2004-04-14, 10:32 AM #6
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Snake-Eyes:
It will be so easy for someone to take that little operation and use it for more malevolent purposes...</font>


I can see the news report now... 'This just in: hordes of recent paralisis patients are walking the streets, looting and pilliging everything in sight'...

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2004-04-14, 10:44 AM #7
It's about time they got FDA approval.

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2004-04-14, 10:45 AM #8
Yes, but what if someone with the know how could manipulate it so that their brain acted as a computer processor. Now imagine that person walking around with a wireless broadband modem in their pocket. Need some quick cash? Walk up to the nearest ATM machine...

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2004-04-14, 11:27 AM #9
But what happens when you fall asleep, and have those dreams about accidently deleting all your files...

What you don't have those dreams?

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2004-04-14, 1:08 PM #10
Or what happens when the computer crashes? [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-04-14, 2:04 PM #11
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Roach:
It's about time they got FDA approval.
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Agreed. AS for the rest of you...

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2004-04-14, 2:05 PM #12
That would be cool, get an implant so you never need a keyboard or mouse or anything, you would just communicate with the computer through the implant.
2004-04-14, 2:17 PM #13
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by NoESC:
But what happens when you fall asleep, and have those dreams about accidently deleting all your files...

What you don't have those dreams?

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That's actually an interesting point. I'm led to believe that sleep paralysis is the body's failsafe against motor functions being used in your sleef (ie the reason most people don't sleepwalk). The system would have to detect if you're asleep and shut down accordingly.

Oh and i'm sure someone would work out how to program "shortcut" motor function sequences like a special "give this woman the best sex of her life" program.
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2004-04-14, 4:27 PM #14
Hmm... would this qualify recipients as cyborgs?

If so, it gives new meaning to the phrase "cyber sex."

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2004-04-14, 4:31 PM #15
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DogSRoOL:
Hmm... would this qualify recipients as cyborgs?</font>

Yes it would, since walking arround with an "Internet lens" over one eye is enough to qualify.

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2004-04-14, 11:36 PM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by nottheking:

Yes it would, since walking arround with an "Internet lens" over one eye is enough to qualify.

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I think you're mistaking "cyborg" for "nerd."


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2004-04-15, 5:16 AM #17
If you ask me i just think its one more way humans are trying to play God.

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2004-04-15, 5:18 AM #18
I don't like it.

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2004-04-15, 6:58 AM #19
Sweet, I'll take one.

Oh, and one of those internet lens thingies too.

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2004-04-15, 7:07 AM #20
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DeTRiTiC-iQ:
That's actually an interesting point. I'm led to believe that sleep paralysis is the body's failsafe against motor functions being used in your sleef (ie the reason most people don't sleepwalk). The system would have to detect if you're asleep and shut down accordingly.</font>


It would probably be simple enough to have it detect a certain level of malatonin (or is it seratonin? one is pigment, and one is the sleep hormone.. i forget which is which [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]) in the bloodstream as 'asleep'. problem solved

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2004-04-15, 8:56 AM #21
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2004-04-15, 9:41 AM #22
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2004-04-15, 9:46 AM #23
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