Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00414)

As I wrote before: We can drive our cars and maybe heli's on that 
energy
Nothing new for me.
Christina




--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "M. Sufilight" <global-
theosophy@s...> wrote:
> Hallo all,
> 
> The latest news:
> 
> "Brain chip reads man's thoughts 
> 
> The "chip" reads brain signals 
> 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. 
> 
> 
> - Mind over matter -
> 
> He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the 
volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his 
home. 
> 
> Scientists have been working for some time to devise a way to 
enable paralysed people to control devices with the brain. 
> 
> Studies have shown that monkeys can control a computer with 
electrodes implanted into their brain." ...
> 
> "Professor John Donoghue, an expert on neuroscience at Brown 
University, Rhode Island, is the scientist behind the device produced 
by Cyberkinetics. 
> 
> He said: "The computer screen is basically a TV remote control 
panel, and in order to indicate a selection he merely has to pass the 
cursor over an icon, and that's equivalent to a click when he goes 
over that icon." 
> Mr Nagle has also been able to use thought to move a prosthetic 
hand and robotic arm to grab sweets from one person's hand and place 
them into another. 
> 
> Professor Donoghue hopes that ultimately implants such as this will 
allow people with paralysis to regain the use of their limbs. 
> 
> The long term aim is to design a package the size of a mobile phone 
that will run on batteries, and to electrically stimulate the 
patient's own muscles. This will be difficult. The simple movements 
we took for granted involved complex electrical signals which would 
be hard to replicate, Dr Richard Apps, a neurophysiologist from 
Bristol University, UK, told the BBC News website. 
> 
> He said there were millions of neurones in the brain involved with 
movement. The brain chip taps into only a very small number of these. 
But he said the work was extremely exciting. 
> "It's quite remarkable. They have taken research to the next stage 
to have a clear benefit for a patient that otherwise would not be 
able to move. "It seems that they have cracked the crucial step and 
arguably the most challenging step to get hand movements. 
> "Just to be able to grasp an object is a major step forward." 
> 
> He said it might be possible to hone this further to achieve finer 
movements of the hand. 
> 
> Matthew Nagel's story is featured in a Frontiers programme on BBC 
Radio Four on Wednesday 13 April, 2005, at 2100 BST."
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396387.stm
> (BBC Thursday, 31 March, 2005)
> 
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