Intel: Chip in Brain Implants Are the Future
I just hope that our brains won't BSOD.
Working on your typing skills or even learning Dvorak or Colemak (admittedly, I have) to make you a more efficient worker? That may be all for nothing as Intel believes that we'll be able to control our computers with our brains by 2020.
Intel and its research partners are studying how brain acts when it thinks. For example, scientists have found that people's brains react in a similar manner when asked to think of a bear.
Through sensors that can detect this sort of brain activity, Intel think that it will be able to read and translate this into an input system thanks to a brain implantable chip.
"We're trying to prove you can do interesting things with brain waves," Intel research scientist Dean Pomerleau told Computerworld. "Eventually people may be willing to be more committed ... to brain implants. Imagine being able to surf the Web with the power of your thoughts."
Even if thinking about a bear isn't enough to detect that you want to copy and paste something, Intel still thinks that there's a future in using your brain instead of the keyboard.
"If we can get to the point where we can accurately detect specific words, you could mentally type," he added. "You could compose characters or words by thinking about letters flashing on the screen or typing whole words rather than their individual characters."
While this may all sound far-fetched, or perhaps even inconvenient for present time, Intel thinks that it's possible and something we'll all want.
"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," said Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.' Now you can't get them to stop [carrying devices]. There are a lot of things that have to be done first but I think [implanting chips into human brains] is well within the scope of possibility."
Make good use of your fancy mouse and keyboard set up before they're obsolete, folks.
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I am pretty sure in 20 years i will not be willing to implant anything on my brain, or any GPS tracking device on my child's neck or have sex with a sub woofer. Using my mobile to communicate does not make me less human. Implanting a chip on my brain indeed does so. Sadly, it comes down to the very own meaning of words "Less" and "More", analogies that day by day are changing. True, we are not that far from perceiving "More" a human that will be able to control his pc, in-house air-conditioning and TV by using not wireless connection, but "brainless" instead.
Time to get hold of an "Intel Inside" sticker for my forehead. Soon ill be full of chips that will do just about anything, making me indeed, "brainless"
[Sarcasm]O yeah, we can find if implants in my brain are faulty, we can RMA it. Easy work.[/sarcasm]
Funny, one of my irrational fears is putting a 1024-bit cypher on my brain and losing the key.
Also, 3 words that strike fear into my very soul and chill me to the bone:
WINDOWS FOR WETWARE
*hides*
mmmm could bring a new meaning to a hex dump
I'd lol if my GP turned out to be called Dr. Watson
An when we blue screen, can I assume some good Samaritan will give a good hard kick the ass and reboot me?
Here is hoping you can reboot the wifey and update the bios from time to time.
Rab1d the Armadillo hat works better ...
new forum toms peopleware
and not so waiters will be running server chips?
Can't wait, but not just for input, but for full visual/audio interface - "better than life" anyone?
Yeah hitting the right button with out touching it..
Defy logic, remember phone numbers and get images directly into the head.. Hey i got that already. Im an experiment,
This is pretty cool I dunno why people are so down on it. Whats wrong with wanting to improve your brain with a bit of extra hardware ???
will catch you out when surfing and a website has a banner on it that catches your eye and you think to yourself.
" bloody hell i could just give that a right royal F*****g"
Before you know it there are porn sites all over your screen lol.
Explain that to the misses lol !!!
I think this will bring on a higher divorce rate !!
It will be tricky having thoughts like ctr/alt/del and format c uhm me
Old news. I remember reading about a company in New Jersey that had working prototypes for brain reading chips for use in control prosthetic limbs and such like. That was 3 years ago.
It will be tricky having thoughts like ctr/alt/del and format c uhm me
You need therapy
will catch you out when surfing and a website has a banner on it that catches your eye and you think to yourself." bloody hell i could just give that a right royal F*****g"Before you know it there are porn sites all over your screen lol.Explain that to the misses lol !!!I think this will bring on a higher divorce rate !!
Book your self for therapy too.
Anyone watch the matrix ? I see it coming
[Thinks hard = Open Command prompt and do "del Brain:\"] *Dies*.
Maybe we should have a chip stuck up our anus..
Some customers expect us to crap miracles..