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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: free_electron on December 17, 2012, 07:59:33 pm
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http://gizmodo.com/5968979/woman-gains-full-mind-control-of-robotic-arm-just-like-in-star-wars (http://gizmodo.com/5968979/woman-gains-full-mind-control-of-robotic-arm-just-like-in-star-wars)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9750735/Paralysed-woman-uses-thought-alone-to-operate-robotic-arm..html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9750735/Paralysed-woman-uses-thought-alone-to-operate-robotic-arm..html)
Quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann Feeds Herself With Robotic Arm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0bJkk86pw#ws)
THis woman is fully paralyzed form the head down. Using two tiny chips implanted in her brain that pick up minute electrical signals she has control of a robot arm.
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AAAh. Science helps humanity.
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
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I've witnessed personally the absolutely amazing capability of the (child) brain to adapt.
My now almost 7 years old daughter suffered from meningitis just before her third birthday and as a consequence lost all hearing; luckily that's the only consequence.
She received cochlear implants on both sides quickly thereafter and I didn't expect that much from it, but I'm still amazed how this crude* technology enables her to hear and has enabled her to continue learning to speak mostly by hearing. Of course with the necessary amount of therapy.
I mean, how many of us could still adapt that quickly, if ever, to hearing the world like this... http://www.hei.org/research/shannon/simulations/ (http://www.hei.org/research/shannon/simulations/) And this is an idealized simulation with white noise and no background noises. What she actually hears is probably worse.
I guess she was very lucky, being the 'right' age and having a developed auditory memory. Most definitely not all CI users do as well as my daughter does.
And oh... the stuff is from Australia ;)
*: crude compared to the original biological system it replaces. The external and internal pieces of electronics are fairly impressive feats of miniaturisation.
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It's wonderful, isn't it. And only early beginnings still; one can hope the technology will advance greatly.
With any luck by the time my body gives out in a few more decades, I'll be able to get my brain ladled into some kind of upright metal cylinder on wheels. Add a dome on top that swivels with a camera on a sort of eye-stalk, and a couple of front-mounted manipulator arms... no wait, make that one arm and one disintegrator gun. Plus a tasteful grid of dome-shaped bumps on the cylinder exterior, and I think I'd feel quite at home.
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EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE Kill the Doctor! ( said in a voice sent through a ring modulator).
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I went for a job with Cochlear maybe almost 20 years ago.
I started poorly in the interview, I then got flustered and did worse, ie probably they just saw right through me. It was so annoying not answering questions that I really could've answered.
Anyway that was such a shame for me as I would've really loved that job and the chances to learn that went along with it.
Nevertheless I saw what a good company they were and was amazed at what they were doing so I bought some shares in the company, which have done really well.
Pleased to know they are doing a good job.
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It's wonderful, isn't it. And only early beginnings still; one can hope the technology will advance greatly.
With any luck by the time my body gives out in a few more decades, I'll be able to get my brain ladled into some kind of upright metal cylinder on wheels. Add a dome on top that swivels with a camera on a sort of eye-stalk, and a couple of front-mounted manipulator arms... no wait, make that one arm and one disintegrator gun. Plus a tasteful grid of dome-shaped bumps on the cylinder exterior, and I think I'd feel quite at home.
Argh...
For a moment I thought you were heading this way
(http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/Graphics/338/12/338-1201204543-robot-nixon.jpg)