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    Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind

    Scientists Read Pigeons' Brains For The Secrets Of Their Navigation

    Paralyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant

    Prosthetic Speech Implant Turns Your Thoughts to Words

    Brain Implants Instead of Prozac

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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    so now we know the real reason skynet rose.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    10 years? Dream on, Kurzweil suck-ups.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    Okay folks, we've officially reached the point of no return. Human laziness has become terminal. All super-villians, mad scientists, and Republicans; it is now your time to shine! The planet, and all life on it, must go! All sales are final.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    I thought I already had a brain implant. Turns out it was a plastic green army man I shoved up my nose when I was four.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    This would be awesome if my thoughts weren't changing or thinking something else all the time. I would be switching between channels and web sites so fast I wouldn't know what was on or going on.

    Still though, maybe it would be a helpful way to get me to focus, and put a memory device somewhere in there to help me retain even more info than I already do and I am set.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    Last thing I need for my subconsciousness to keep opening porn sites in public.
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    11/20/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: Haha, tell me about it. No sir, I have no idea how that video of the donkey fornicating with the nice white girl popped up on everyone's screen...
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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    I can kill you with my mind!
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    Just what I need - pop ups, malware, and message board trolls in my mind.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    great, one night of drinking and i'll be mind calling ex gfs
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/20/09

    @evildead1971: Imagine how bad drunken rambling can get when it's literally stream of thought...
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    11/20/09

    @AngryEddy: There's no way it doesn't get creepy if ALL of your thoughts are sent.

    "I love/hate you and I want to be with/murder you. I think we can make it work/kill myself this time!
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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    wireless, of course, and no need for cell phones either. but 1 word: viruses
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/20/09

    @Mathmos:
    Oh the fun with that. Going to be a lot of sex viruses or piss/shit viruses.

    Watch out H1N1!
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    Not a bad idea, until you find yourself getting multiple implants to control your TV, VCR, BluRay player, Xbox, Surround Receiver...
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    Image of Scaramanga9 Scaramanga9
    11/20/09

    @Skunky:
    Until Logitech makes a Harmony universal brain remote for $10k.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    In reply to Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind
    I'll do this so long as there is a smart dolphin in every hospital to help us when we double up our memory implants and Henry Rollins to help me get there.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/20/09

    @Jassen: I accept your movie reference and award you one gold star.
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    Image of Scaramanga9 Scaramanga9
    11/20/09

    @AngryEddy:
    But should we be rewarding references to terrible movies?
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @Scaramanga9:

    SIR!!

    I take offense at your categorization of the movie as "terrible".

    How could any movie that has Dolph Lundgren playing a cybernetic enhanced psychotic hit-man preacher be considered terrible.

    I request that you name a better* Sci-Fi movie from 1995 or accept my challenge of a duel to the pain.

    * and lets be fair, Waterworld and Judge Dredd were both released in the same year.
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    Image of VisibleHand VisibleHand
    11/20/09

    @Jassen: 12 Monkeys.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @VisibleHand: OK, OK, so apart from Species, Ghost in the Shell & Twelve Monkeys name 1 good sci-fi movie from 1995 !!!!
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    Image of Scaramanga9 Scaramanga9
    11/20/09

    @Jassen:
    City of Lost Children. Zing!
    Also, I know not everyone agrees that it's a good movie, but Strange Days came out in '95 and it's certainly better than JM. And if we're counting Species, Screamers wasn't a bad flick, plus it had Robocop's Peter Weller in it.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @Scaramanga9:

    Fine then, so apart from Species, Ghost in the Shell, Twelve Monkeys, City of Lost Children, Strange Days & Screamers name one sci-fi movie better than JM from 1995 ?
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    Image of Scaramanga9 Scaramanga9
    11/20/09

    @Jassen:
    Damn me, I don't think I can name a one.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @Scaramanga9: Tis OK, it can be hard to find a good movie sometimes. On this occasion i shall let thee go and not have to suffer the duel to the pain.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    11/20/09

    @Jassen: Johnny Nemonic? Waterworld?

    /Prepares to duck!
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/20/09

    @Im_your_Huckleberry: I' m not talking to you anymore.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    11/20/09

    @Jassen: I'm a sucker for a duel to the pain ;)
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    06/25/09

    In reply to Scientists Read Pigeons' Brains For The Secrets Of Their Navigation
    I wonder if people in the city were freaked out by pigeons with electrodes and a transmitter sticking out of their heads. Sounds like an unsettling sight, to say the least.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    06/25/09

    @kagekiri: When I was in college, someone was doing a similar study with the local squirrel population. I was stumbling home after an all-nighter when I first saw one stop and stare at me with a little antenna sticking out of its neck.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/21/08

    In reply to Paralyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant
    I don't understand. The vowels are cool, but why not let him move a cursor around to spell words? Seems like up, down, left, right would be a lot easier than vowels?
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    Image of HawaiianActor HawaiianActor
    11/23/08

    @twophrasebark: yea really, even if they need to do it the same way with the vowels and all, they could jus make the vowels represent directions ( a=↑, e=←, i=↓, o=→ or whatever...), and then put a computer screen in front of him...
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    Image of emp emp
    11/21/08

    In reply to Paralyzed Man Speaks Again Using Brain Implant
    new discoveries in science quite often leave me speechless...
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/21/08

    @emperorzombie: doh! I see what you did there.
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