Brain chip reads man's thoughts

[emad]

BBC
A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.

Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001.

The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone.

The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4396387.stm

[Frederik]

1. Wow

Amazing.

[emad]

2. Implant one in Shrub's cranial cavity, wire him up to a

scanner and link it to the printer....What do you think it would say?????

[mhr]

3. "I Know Nothing!"

eom

[Cerridwen]

4. zzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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[emad]

6. "Cocaine! Cocaine! Cocaine! Cocaine! Cocaine!.....etc

[Gunit_Sangh]

5. What would it say?

AAAAAWWWW WAAAAHHHHHH

(sorry .. extreme sarcasm this morning

[Frederik]

7. must drink human blood...

must drink human blood... must drink human blood...

[Nihil]

9. Probably

"Input failure - no signal found"

or even "%Out of cheese error - redo from start" :-)

[Frederik]

10. "syntax error"

[YankeyMCC]

8. Oh man I have no idea what's going on.