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

    The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant

    An Input/Output Device for the Brain - Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria

    Economists Suggest Mind-Reading As a Way to Determine Public Good

    Scientists Prove Your Brain Still Contains Forgotten Memories

    The Strange Case of Seizures That Turned a Woman Into a Man

    Perfecting Closed-Skull Brain Surgery

    Your Brain Will Eventually Be Used Against You

    A Harvard Psychiatrist Explains Zombie Neurobiology

    Your Brain Starts Deteriorating By Age 27, Say Neuroscientists
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    01:24 PM

    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
    12:56 PM

    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
    12:25 PM

    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
    10:36 AM

    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
    09:55 AM

    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
    09:39 AM

    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
    12:26 PM

    @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
    08:51 AM

    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
    08:31 AM

    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
    08:29 AM

    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
    08:36 AM

    @evildead1971: Imagine how bad drunken rambling can get when it's literally stream of thought...
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    12:28 PM

    @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
    08:28 AM

    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
    09:22 AM

    @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
    08:07 AM

    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
    08:54 AM

    @Skunky:
    Until Logitech makes a Harmony universal brain remote for $10k.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    08:07 AM

    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
    08:37 AM

    @Jassen: I accept your movie reference and award you one gold star.
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    Image of Scaramanga9 Scaramanga9
    09:00 AM

    @AngryEddy:
    But should we be rewarding references to terrible movies?
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    10:07 AM

    @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
    10:48 AM

    @Jassen: 12 Monkeys.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    10:54 AM

    @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
    11:37 AM

    @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
    11:44 AM

    @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
    12:45 PM

    @Jassen:
    Damn me, I don't think I can name a one.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    01:03 PM

    @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
    02:35 PM

    @Jassen: Johnny Nemonic? Waterworld?

    /Prepares to duck!
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    02:39 PM

    @Im_your_Huckleberry: I' m not talking to you anymore.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    02:51 PM

    @Jassen: I'm a sucker for a duel to the pain ;)
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/12/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    Another frequent SF trope. #wireheads
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/12/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    At its most frequent, the patient self-stimulated throughout the day, neglecting personal hygiene and family commitments. A chronic ulceration developed at the tip of the finger used to adjust the amplitude dial and she frequently tampered with the device in an effort to increase the stimulation amplitude.

    I foresee similar results when sexbots are unleashed on the world. #wireheads
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    Image of strideo strideo
    11/12/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: Wait. Isn't this what most World of Warcraft players are like right now? #wireheads
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Curious Case of a Woman Addicted to Her Brain Implant
    Kinda like "jacking on" in Futurama? #wireheads
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