Microchips implants for brains approved

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Tiny computer chip implants in paralysed
peoples brains will read their thoughts

Tiny computer chip implants in paralysed
peoples brains will read their thoughts 04/18/2004 08:19 AM
Medical News Today Apr 18 2004 11:41AM GMT

Red Brains vs. Blue Brains?

Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? 08/23/2004 10:13 AM

Microchips at the World Cup

Microchips at the World Cup 06/17/2005 07:13 PM
Welcome to the Ars Technica sports desk, you knuckleheads. I'm gonna yap on sports briefly, so the pocket-protector crowd better move on quickly.

Motorola Will Spin Off 30% of Subsidiary
in Microchips

Motorola Will Spin Off 30% of Subsidiary
in Microchips 06/21/2004 09:58 PM
New York Times Jun 22 2004 2:20AM GMT

PluggedIn: TV Shoppers Get New Education
in Microchips

PluggedIn: TV Shoppers Get New Education
in Microchips 01/18/2004 05:58 AM
Boston Globe Jan 18 2004 9:46AM GMT

Microchips to Save Peru's Alpacas

Microchips to Save Peru's Alpacas 05/23/2004 04:50 AM

Microchips May Soon Need Enormous
Power-Intel CTO (Reuters)

Microchips May Soon Need Enormous
Power-Intel CTO (Reuters) 02/19/2004 03:38 PM
Reuters - The old geek's joke about the microchip so warm it can iron your pants or fry an egg could soon be an understatement, according to Intel, the world's largest chip maker.

Microchips Counter Andes Alpaca
Smuggling (AP)

Microchips Counter Andes Alpaca
Smuggling (AP) 02/05/2005 09:41 PM
AP - Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning, wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries.

PluggedIn: TV Shoppers Get New Education
in Microchips (Reuters)

PluggedIn: TV Shoppers Get New Education
in Microchips (Reuters) 01/17/2004 11:02 PM
Reuters - Chip makers have long had a major marketing dilemma: everyone loves cool gadgets, but few care to know whose microchip, whether it be a signal processor or power amplifier, gives life to the device.

Intel uses delicate surgery to fine-tune
microchips

Intel uses delicate surgery to fine-tune
microchips 08/08/2004 10:59 PM
CNET News.com Aug 9 2004 3:31AM GMT

Intel Technicians Use Delicate Silicon
Surgery to Fine-Tune Microchips

Intel Technicians Use Delicate Silicon
Surgery to Fine-Tune Microchips 08/08/2004 07:14 PM
A technique known as silicon nanosurgery, routinely used at nine Intel chip factories around the world, has transformed the way modern computer chips are developed.

Mmm, brains.

Mmm, brains. 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Bleh. It's gray and cold outside, and not to mention the winds that are kicking up the mass quantities of...

A car with brains (no, not the driver)

A car with brains (no, not the driver) 05/03/2004 11:31 PM
Straits Times May 4 2004 4:12AM GMT

Rrrrr, brains.

Rrrrr, brains. 04/17/2004 08:53 AM
Facewound is an excellent homebrew side-scrolling action game that's currently still in preview. It features zombies, bullet time, and a full arsenal of weaponry. It's not web based, but it does feature some nice special effects for those of you with good graphics cards (not required). Also, it's very friendly to custom maps and skins. Here is the download page for those who want to get right into it. All and all, a good way to waste a Saturday.

Brains and beauty, etc.

Brains and beauty, etc. 04/16/2004 06:27 PM
A brain study released today shows that the human ability to appreciate aesthetics is based in the prefontal cortex, part of the brain involved in decision making. The scientists at the Balearic Islands University in Spain came to this conclusion by imaging their subjects' brains while looking at art and photography. According to the study, quoted in Scientific American, "'a phylogenetic change in the prefontal cortex could give way to the decorative and artistic profusion' in humans."
Another study published today by Northwestern University suggests that "Eureka!" moments of insight activate "a distinct area in the right hemisphere of the brain's temporal cortex," a region where semantic connections occur.

"For thousands of years people have said that insight feels different from more straightforward problem solving," one of the researchers said. "We believe this is the first research showing that distinct computational and neural mechanisms lead to these breakthrough moments."

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Wall O' Hot Brains

Wall O' Hot Brains 06/17/2005 03:56 PM
On one of the walls of my office I have a growing collection (where growing means two) of pictures of guys that meet the criteria of "Hot Brain." So, I of course have received tons of grief about tonight's episode...

Brains for Sale

Brains for Sale 01/26/2004 07:16 AM

Man RFID Implants Self

Man RFID Implants Self 03/29/2005 08:34 PM

This chap placed an RFID sensor in his hand (or had a doctor do it, rather) and plans on wiring up his house and car with sensors that will allow all sorts of wireless magic to happy when he waves it around. He has a nice FAQ up explaining why he won't be burning in the lightless flames of hell for such an implant, among other minor technical details.

FAQ Page [Amal]
Photo Gallery [Flickr]

Brain Implants

Brain Implants 04/13/2004 09:06 PM

FDA approves human brain implant devices: Wow. Science fiction come to life.

...a clinical trial in which four-square-millimeter chips will be placed beneath the skulls of paralyzed patients.

If successful, the chips could allow patients to command a computer to act — merely by thinking about the instructions they wish to send.

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Extracting Video from Cat Brains

Extracting Video from Cat Brains 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
`The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, `in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.' William Gibson, Neuromancer - 1984 It was still very much a 300 baud universe when I jacked into Gibson's future for the first time. In 1984 there were very few systems I could connect to with the surplus CAE acoustic modem I had access to, and almost all of them were a forbidden long distance telephone call away. My borrowed deck suffered from sensory deprivation and just like a person, it hallucinated. It hallucinated games.

Don't Flush Brains Down the Drain

Don't Flush Brains Down the Drain 05/18/2004 04:44 AM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a plan for cattle brains and other remains that may carry deadly mad cow disease. It wants to turn them into a bio-based source of energy.

Searching Brains Not Documents

Searching Brains Not Documents 03/11/2003 11:41 PM

Searching Brains Not Documents

Scoble made my week and truly inspired me with this comment::

Here's a homework project. Go to the RSS Search engine. Now go to Google. Search for these words: "InfoPath" and "OneNote." What do you notice? I like the quality of the RSS results a LOT better. [_Go_]

I was thinking about this a lot and the best analogy I can give you this the following:

1. We've all debated ad nauseum what blogs are.  But the one I like best is that "a blog is a conversation".  It might tbe with your friends, your employees, your customers or yourself (if no one's reading).
   
2. Conversation is a product of the brain.  What else can it be?
   
3. What this is shaping up to be is not a document centric search engine at all.  Its shaping up to being a conversation centric search engine or as I'm starting to think of it -- searching the brains of all the smart people out there that are talking about things.

Comments?

The screen-age: Our brains in our
laptops

The screen-age: Our brains in our
laptops 08/02/2004 11:49 AM
CNN Aug 2 2004 2:51PM GMT

Rewiring Mouse Brains

Rewiring Mouse Brains 08/29/2004 04:24 PM
A recent MIT press release describes new discoveries about the plasticity of mammal brains. Mriganka Sur and other researchers at the Picower Center for Learning and Memory at MIT "rewired" the brains of mice to receive visual information in the region of their brains normally used for hearing. The modified mice responded to flashes of light as if they had heard sounds. The researchers suggest that if human brains share this level of adaptability, if may be possible to reroute signals in people with brain disease or injury, helping them recover normal sensory or emotional responses. For more information on the research visit the Mriganka Sur Lab website or see Sur's paper, Rewiring the cortex: Cross-modal plasticity and its implications for cortical development and function (PDF format).

Early Bird Had the Brains to Fly

Early Bird Had the Brains to Fly 08/05/2004 12:00 AM

Check out the big brains on these guys!

Check out the big brains on these guys! 09/23/2004 04:48 AM
Human Intelligence is a good site from Indiana University that looks at historical influences and current controversies surrounding the study of intelligence. Find out more about topics such as "the Mozart Effect", the theory of multiple intelligences, and the influence of birth order on intelligence, and then browse the brains behind the history of inquiry into human intellect.

Keeping Abreast of Implants

Keeping Abreast of Implants 01/23/2004 06:29 PM
Inamed's race with Mentor for first rights to the silicone breast implant market hits a snag.

J.Lo-Butt Implants Explode!

J.Lo-Butt Implants Explode! 07/29/2004 11:47 AM

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“…Candy Jones- Davies, 22, vows to sue the hospital where surgeons allegedly pumped the implants so full of curve-creating air, they both blew sky-high — right on the operating table. And she says a surgical nurse has agreed to testify in her attempt to collect $17.5 million for medical expenses, lost future wages and emotional pain and suffering. “She told me they had just put in the implants, when one of the surgeons — she’s…

FDA to Review Ban on Silicone Implants

FDA to Review Ban on Silicone Implants 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
Smart Money Apr 9 2005 8:50AM GMT

Red Flag On Silicone Implants

Red Flag On Silicone Implants 11/06/2003 06:28 AM
CBS News Nov 6 2003 5:38AM ET

Panel OKs Silicone Implants

Panel OKs Silicone Implants 04/13/2005 07:29 PM
Los Angeles Times Apr 13 2005 11:05PM GMT

FDA to Reconsider Silicone Implants

FDA to Reconsider Silicone Implants 04/11/2005 11:28 AM
HealthCentral.com Apr 11 2005 3:27PM GMT

Fornicate and run marathons to beef
up your brains

Fornicate and run marathons to beef
up your brains 06/18/2004 10:59 AM
Fascinating Australian Broadcasting Co science piece on the latest research in neuron production:

we do know a couple of things that stimulate brain cell production. One of them, of course is anti-depressants, which we now know probably the key molecule by which this acts, because we’ve been able to purify these cells that make neurons and we know what are the receptors that bind molecules. And one of these receptors turn out to be a receptor for a neurotrophine, a molecule that keeps nerve cells alive traditionally. But we know that anti-depressants raise the molecule that binds to this receptor and we now know that this is the factor that can stimulate the production of new nerve cells. So we think we’ve made the connection between anti-depressants and production of new nerve cells. But there are many other ways of stimulating the production and some of them are pretty damned interesting. One is if you put an animal on a wheel and let it run ad libitum and they run up to about 10 kilometres overnight, they make about twice as many neurones.

The other thing is that certain molecules produced during sex also appear to be highly stimulatory of neuronal production. Prolactin levels, which pregnant women have enormous amounts of, also stimulate large amounts (of neurons).

Link (Thanks, Adrian!)

Software exercises aging brains

Software exercises aging brains 04/04/2005 06:50 PM
Also: Have cell phones made wristwatches obsolete? [News.com Extra]

" Backwards City: Our Brains Don't
Work "

" Backwards City: Our Brains Don't
Work " 07/13/2004 10:35 AM

Backwards City: Our Brains Don't Work

Backwards City: Our Brains Don't Work 07/13/2004 08:23 AM
Backwards City: Our Brains Don't Work .. Ahhhh

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Is "Barney" destroying my kids' brains?

Is "Barney" destroying my kids' brains? 05/07/2004 07:47 AM
A few weeks ago, a study connected TV watching to ADHD. But the findings have been blown way out of proportion.

Green, Glowing Mouse Brains

Green, Glowing Mouse Brains 07/17/2004 06:08 PM
A recent CMU press release describes a breakthrough in the study of neurons in living animals. Alison Barth, a CMU neuroscientist, has developed a method to directly identify activated neurons in a living creature, genetically modified with a glowing green flourescent protein (GFP) and a gene called c-fos which turns on when a nerve cell is activated. Past methods such as MRI have allowed scientists to see only the general area of the brain in which activity was taking place but this new method shows precisely which neurons are active. The new method has been used to reverse-engineer the neural paths and activity in sensory data processing of mouse whiskers. This data could lead to better computer simulations of neural processes, among other things.

Veggies Reported to Help Women's Brains
(AP)

Veggies Reported to Help Women's Brains
(AP) 07/19/2004 04:54 PM
AP - Here's another reason to eat your veggies: A new study suggests certain vegetables like broccoli and spinach may help older women keep their brains sharper.
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Microchips implants for brains approved