Comments on: Bionic senses

By: Sylvia Ring

Sylvia Ring — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:51:33 +0000

This is truly awesome – imagine browsing the internet just by thinking!

By: george

george — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:42:27 +0000

First thing that comes to mind is, multiple monitors increases productivity, what about multiple eyes?
Full range 4D high def vision would be interesting, you would be able to see doppler shift as the light passes around your head, if tuned correctly.

What about linking brains together in a vlan across the internet to accomplish greater tasks like distributed computing processes are done now?

The overall implications are startling although I agree with the pessimism. Prime example: The internet. Built originally for communications and sharing of knowledge, the corporate world took it over and it is all about money now.

Oh well, still cool stuff.

By: Angus

Angus — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:18:15 +0000

directly mostly towards fozz…has anyone ever read the book “Feed”? looks like we’re just one step closer.

By: cy berkop

cy berkop — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:29:36 +0000

Michael Criton wrote the book many years ago "Terminal Man". They connected electrodes to the brain of a human. I do not remember the pretenses as to why they did it, but eventually he went mad and was running around killing people.

Yesterdays Science fiction is tomorrows reality.

Prepare to be be be assimilated, resistance is is is is futile!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:15:06 +0000

If you could integrate night vision with a full color spectrum you wouldn’t have to turn on the lights at night. Which would save power. Justifying the cost of implanting something in your head.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:56:25 +0000

The idea is great but how much will i suck when someone hacks the inplants and startes sending gay porn dirrectly to your eyes!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:20:54 +0000

What would be really cool is if they could make these like infrared night vision type of thing. Or maybe turn up/down the sensitivity of different wavelengths of light, that would be handy looking at nebulas and stuff through a telescope.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:20:17 +0000

@rj-

really? I wonder if the earth will turn square. Bill gates will be our leader and we'll assimilate the martians.

I think we'll have a lot of the same issues we have today, in a different scale- you're likely to require a personal firewall and some virus protection. The insulin pump and pacemaker that work with your body's network will have to be protected!

By: Mark Southerland

Mark Southerland — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:09:12 +0000

What happened to making fun of people wearing “coke bottle” glasses.

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:54:14 +0000

Where is the instructable?! Circuit diagrams? Howto?
There is none? This is no hack!!!!!!!!!

Of course I joke. This is very interesting stuff and I remember when I first heard about bionic eye and its tiny 16x16 resolution.. all I could think about was 'how long till they get a resolution suitable for super mario bros to be played directly to your brain?'. The concept of digital devices interfacing with our biological brains is ..mindboggling.. there really is no limit. I also fear this kind of engineering will be the death of human kind.

By: MrHappy

MrHappy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:46:54 +0000

I have a second cousin with cochlear implants. Apparently, he found out his wife of 10 years has an annoying voice. Now, he makes judicious use of the off switch.

Seriously.

By: Rubicon

Rubicon — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:11:12 +0000

I can’t remember where I read it, maybe here or engadget or one of the news sites but if memory serves me right the university of washington is working on a sort of contact lenses that they’re saying has varied uses including zoomable targeting for those of the world in combat-related careers and hopefully plain grad students like me who want to be able to see a half mile away on command.

By: dirk

dirk — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:38:55 +0000

I love the idea of having an 'extra' input for sight or sound. The ability to render information (either auditory or visual) without any external equipment presents so many uses it's hard to imagine them all.

What is more interesting to me is the idea of connecting digital systems directly to the senses. The human brain is marvelously adaptable, and it boggles the mind to imagine what could be accomplished by imaginative scientists.

By: fozz

fozz — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:26:30 +0000

although retinal implants would be FRIGGIN SWEET, my pessimism can't help but think of how we'll be constantly fed advertising through our wireless implants.

the future: potentially very awesome, most likely gonna suck.