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Scientists Use Brain Waves To Eavesdrop On What We Hear

Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago

This X-ray/CT scan shows the placement of electrodes over the temporal lobe that scientists used to decode what the patient was hearing.

The day we can scan a person’s brain and “hear” their inner dialogue just got closer. Scientists at the University [...]

Cyborg

Petman – Finally A Robot That Looks Like Terminator (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 63 days ago

With human-like movements, PETMAN will help the military assess the performance of their chemical protection suits.

Look out cute and cuddly Nao. Get out of the way ever-attentive Asimo, a new robot’s on the march and [...]

Cyborg

Revolutionary New Brain Chip Allows Monkeys To Grasp AND Feel Objects Using Their Thoughts

Written by: Peter Murray 133 days ago

A new brain chip that allows monkeys to control a virtual hand and sense touch may be the breakthrough needed to give paralyzed patients the protheses control they need.

Scientists have created a brain implant that not only allows monkeys to control a computer with their thoughts, it also [...]

Cyborg

Injured Rat Receives Brain Chip, Can Move Again

Written by: Peter Murray 134 days ago

Scientists restored a rat's blink reflect with a brain implant that both processes sensory information and controls movement.

Meet Robo-Rat. In the latest advance in cyborg technology, scientists have replaced the dysfunctional part of a rat’s brain with [...]

Cyborg

Canadian Cyborg Documents The Reality Behind Today’s Cyborg Tech

Written by: Aaron Saenz 176 days ago

Eyeborg Deus Ex Documentary feature

Will the future be full of humans who merge with machines to become cyborgs? Ha. It’s already happened. Deus Ex: [...]

Cyborg

Why Am I Wearing This Glove? Oh, It Controls My Robot Hand, That’s All

Written by: Aaron Saenz 182 days ago

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If you’ve never thought about describing a robotic limb as sleek and sexy then you’ve never met Handroid. The latest [...]

Cyborg

Synthetic Legs, Real Athlete – Oscar Pistorius ‘The Blade Runner’ Qualifies For the Olympics

Written by: Aaron Saenz 190 days ago

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One of the fastest runners in South Africa is finally going to the Olympics. Oscar Pistorius is the twenty four [...]

Cyborg

Humanity Struggles With Augmentation Addiction in Mind-Blowing Deus Ex Trailer

Written by: Aaron Saenz 208 days ago

Deus Ex Human Revolution

Holy Crap, this thing is awesome. Straight from Comic Con comes one of the most amazing and enthralling video game [...]

Cyborg

In Medical First Doctors Implant Lab Grown Synthetic Trachea Into Patient

Written by: Peter Murray 229 days ago

The world's first synthetic trachea. The pink coloration is due to stem cells that have differentiated to tracheal tissue.

Regenerative medicine history was made on June 9th at Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital when doctors successfully gave Andemariam Beyene a [...]

Cyborg

Paraplegics Walk With Exoskeleton – Exclusive Video of Berkeley Bionic’s eLegs in Action

Written by: Aaron Saenz 231 days ago

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Robotic legs may get paraplegics walking again, and in more ways than one. Exoskeleton startup Berekely Bionics has partnered with [...]

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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife! The Eyeborgs Are Out to Get You

Written by: Aaron Saenz 239 days ago

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Walking robotic cameras have armed themselves, are seeking your destruction, and the guy from the Highlander TV series is the [...]

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Researchers Develop Neural Prosthesis That Improves Memory in Rats

Written by: Peter Murray 246 days ago

It may not be very long before humans are using neural implants to enhance cognitive performance.

Recent advances in neural prosthetics have allowed people to control a computer cursor using only their thoughts, and allowed one [...]

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New Technique Allows Scientists to Control Neurons In The Brain With Light (video)

Written by: Peter Murray 253 days ago

By giving neurons bacterial light-responsive genes, neuroscientists are now able to control the activity of neurons using a laser.

More and more neuroscientists are using a new tool to shed light–literally–on the brain to uncover its secrets. The brain [...]

Debate Central

Aren’t we already innudated by previous alien singularity fields? Why not?

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gahlinger

We are indeed 'innudated' by aliens -- perhaps this undefined term is perfect to describe the equally undefined nature of these singularity fields.

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Matthew

to clarify; i agree that absurd was not the best word choice. no scientific question is absurd, no matter how irrelevant or inapplicable it seems. even if [...]

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IvoryTowerScientist

I can not help but think if singularity-level civilizations had come to Earth and seen human civilization in the past ten thousand years they might have stepped [...]