Barringtonia
26-06-2007, 07:52
Can someone do a better thread with polls and whatnot cos I can't be bothered
At his prompting, a reporter did simple calculations in her head, and the train sprang forward — apparently indicating activity in the brain's frontal cortex, which handles problem solving.
Activating that region of the brain — by doing sums or singing a song — is what makes the train run, according to Utsugi. When one stops the calculations, the train stops, too.
Fine, trains on brains but wait, it gets better...
Although brain-machine interface technology has traditionally focused on medical uses, makers like Hitachi and Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. have been racing to refine the technology for commercial application.
Hitachi's scientists are set to develop a brain TV remote controller letting users turn a TV on and off or switch channels by only thinking.
No longer will we have to watch a truly awful program simply because the remote is out of our reach and no one's around to hand it to us. Almost beats the invention of the remote for not having to get off the sofa and change the channel manually.
There's some guff about 'medical uses' and such but you can skip through that.
Link. (http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_hi_te/japan_brain_remote)
At his prompting, a reporter did simple calculations in her head, and the train sprang forward — apparently indicating activity in the brain's frontal cortex, which handles problem solving.
Activating that region of the brain — by doing sums or singing a song — is what makes the train run, according to Utsugi. When one stops the calculations, the train stops, too.
Fine, trains on brains but wait, it gets better...
Although brain-machine interface technology has traditionally focused on medical uses, makers like Hitachi and Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. have been racing to refine the technology for commercial application.
Hitachi's scientists are set to develop a brain TV remote controller letting users turn a TV on and off or switch channels by only thinking.
No longer will we have to watch a truly awful program simply because the remote is out of our reach and no one's around to hand it to us. Almost beats the invention of the remote for not having to get off the sofa and change the channel manually.
There's some guff about 'medical uses' and such but you can skip through that.
Link. (http://news.yahoo.com:80/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_hi_te/japan_brain_remote)