OT: Hardware-to-Organism Interfaces (h2oi)

dmm · #1 February 5th, 2004, 11:50 PM

Thanks for the feedback so far. For the record, "mind-reading" interfaces are total fantasy (at least at this point). I'm looking for ideas that might reasonably be implemented in 10 years or so.

Another example: Researchers have already steered cockroaches and rats using brain implants. So, how about remote-controlled animals (dogs, pigeons, rats) equipped with cameras?

Another example: Monitoring actual cells exposed to the environment, as detectors for harmful agents.

Another example (that is already in use): cochlear implants to restore hearing

dmm · #2 February 5th, 2004, 11:57 PM

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Originally posted by Puke:
you dont remember the terrorism futures market?

Good one. I hadn't thought at all of that kind of distributed h2oi.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 February 6th, 2004, 12:53 AM

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Thanks for the feedback so far. For the record, "mind-reading" interfaces are total fantasy (at least at this point). I'm looking for ideas that might reasonably be implemented in 10 years or so.

Another example: Researchers have already steered cockroaches and rats using brain implants. So, how about remote-controlled animals (dogs, pigeons, rats) equipped with cameras?

uh...methinks my point you have proven.

Puke · #4 February 6th, 2004, 02:45 AM

I remember a few years back, Russian inteligence declasified documents on a cyber cat they had built, for survailance. they could steer through implants in the poor thing, record video and audio (god knows where they put the sensors) and it had an antenna burried under its skin. poor thing cost MILLIONS.

honest to god, i read this in the news - and you can probably dredge it up on the web. according to the report the day they were going to field test it, they let it out of their van and watched in horror as it was run over by a car.

in unrelated news, there is also some fierce competition between companies developing ocular implants to restore sight to the blind. some of them tap directly into the occular nerve, and the one that has gotten the most press coverage is able to deliver a 100 pixel (10x10 field of dots) display, enough to enable the subject to destinguish shapes, or read very large block lettering.

Artificial Muscle is a big thing, not only for medicine but for robotics and small motors. nanotubes are all the rage right now, but I saw one interesting report a few months back, about using very fine and very poreous strands of platinum that can contract by huge ammounts, because of all the holes and pores.

Puke · #5 February 6th, 2004, 09:06 AM

wow, i was WAY off. first, it was ours and not theres. second, we couldnt steer it - which was part of the problem. third, no video, just audio.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/an...00/1638924.stm

They say your memory is the second thing to go. Heck if I can remember what the first thing was, but I guess its not as necessary as I must have thought, back when I had it.

Kamog · #6 February 6th, 2004, 09:14 AM

What a terrible thing to do to a cat...

geoschmo · #7 February 7th, 2004, 02:24 AM

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Originally posted by dmm:
Thanks for the feedback so far. For the record, "mind-reading" interfaces are total fantasy (at least at this point). I'm looking for ideas that might reasonably be implemented in 10 years or so.

Ummm, no, not total fantasy. Well, maybe "mind reading" as in, hook someone up and see what they are thinking, like in that Natalie Wood movie. But they already have had some success with interfacing the mind with simple machines and getting them to respond to direct mental impulses. Don't know if we are talking practical applications in less then ten years, but it seems entirely possible given the progress they have already made. Did you read the article I linked to? Here it is in case you missed it in my first post. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicin...576464,00.html

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