REKALL – False Memory Induction
If you ever need to identify a mad scientist just ask him or her for their scifi movie collection and it will tell you all you need to know. Take Mark Mayford of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego who – More...
The SpeechJammer – Freedom of Speech
Just what we need – another tool to silence people. A device which can cut off human speech without the need for physical intervention; “The SpeechJammer” The idea is simple. Psychologists have known More...
Prosthetics That Can Feel
This is great news for people who are in need, the future of humanity may depend on joining the machines to keep up or be left behind. One step closer to a cyborg future. Prosthetics that are controlled by direct More...
Project Avatar
In the James Cameron movie, set far in the future, human soldiers use mind control to inhabit the bodies of human alien hybrids as they carry out a war against the inhabitants of a distant world. Fantasy Scifi? More...
UniSols
There is good and bad use of all computer related technologies. A GOOD USE is artificial limbs for instance that can be run by the brain. The bad use is artificial killing machines coupled with human bodies. And More...
Cyber Rats
Scientists in Israel have just installed a cybernetic brain into a rat. This was all done externally and the rat’s cerebellum was not harmed, only disabled through the use of electrodes. The “brain” More...
The Scent of History
Think of some of your most powerful memories, and there’s likely a smell attached; the aroma of suntan lotion at the beach, the sharpness of freshly mown grass, the floral trail of your mother’s perfume. But More...
The Matrix Reality
It seems the sci-fi industry has done it again. Predictions made in novels like Johnny Mnemonic and Neuromancer back in the 1980s of neural implants linking our brains to machines have become a reality. Back then More...
Brain Sand Sculpture
Not sure what to think of this. I love sand sculptures, but this gives me an eery feeling nevertheless. Perhaps it’s the lifting of the skull and the immediate death of the ‘patient’ shortly after, More...
Mimicking the Brain with Flickr
Digital installations that claim to mimic the ineffable processes of our minds usually do nothing of the sort, but Matthias Dörfelt‘s “Selective Memory Theatre” is subtler than most. To him, the More...
World Wide Mind
Imagine, Michael Chorost proposes, that four police officers on a drug raid are connected mentally in a way that allows them to sense what their colleagues are seeing and feeling. Tony Vittorio, the captain, is More...
Barcode Faces
Our faces contain ‘barcodes’ of information which help us recognise people and may have implications for improving face recognition software, according to a study co-authored by Dr Steven Dakin of the UCL Institute More...