Paralysed Man Moves in Mind-Reading Exoskeleton (bbc.com) 30
A man has been able to move all four of his paralyzed limbs with a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit, French researchers report. From a report: Thibault, 30, said taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the "first man on the Moon." His movements, particularly walking, are far from perfect and the robo-suit is being used only in the lab. But researchers say the approach could one day improve patients' quality of life. Thibault had surgery to place two implants on the surface of the brain, covering the parts of the brain that control movement.
Sixty-four electrodes on each implant read the brain activity and beam the instructions to a nearby computer. Sophisticated computer software reads the brainwaves and turns them into instructions for controlling the exoskeleton. Thibault has to be strapped into the exoskeleton. And he can control each of the arms, maneuvering them in three-dimensional space.
Sixty-four electrodes on each implant read the brain activity and beam the instructions to a nearby computer. Sophisticated computer software reads the brainwaves and turns them into instructions for controlling the exoskeleton. Thibault has to be strapped into the exoskeleton. And he can control each of the arms, maneuvering them in three-dimensional space.
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Watching some professional gamer play. I am unsure if mind reading technology will ever be more efferent then us pressing a button.
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There's quite a lot of latency in processing the stimulus and reacting to it with your muscles, but it works as well as it does because we can anticipate and plan in advance. So I think if we can make a decent bidirectional computer-brain interface, it should be comparable if not better than pushing a button with your fingers.
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So why does it take 12 secs just to open up MSWord (Score:4, Interesting)
I find it interesting how computers are getting fast enough to read and analyses our brainwaves. However new computers running the latest version of office seem to constantly take a long time to open the App and still may lag at our typing.
(I actually once had a modern server with Office 95. on it. It was actually comical to watch it pop open so fast that you could barely catch the splash screen.)
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It takes a lot of CPU to suppress Clippy from speaking. If you want faster office, the chains holding Clippy back from breaking onto your screen need to be released.
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HDD or SSD? It makes a huge difference.
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Watch your network traffic as you open anything recent.
The more that local processing power renders the old client/server model redundant, the more we force into the old client/server model.
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Photoshop 7.0 is decades old yet seems to have most of the same features. Certainly all the ones my novice ass uses. Launches sickeningly fast.
Meanwhile you need 16GB and an i7 to open major (ie "content"-riddled) websites. Want to play Pac-Man on your phone? Set aside 100MB because no one cares if we bloat the shit out of stuff with libraries repositories dependencies etc
https://xkcd.com/676/ [xkcd.com]
I hope... (Score:3)
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(I didn't RTFA).
I also have a question of why a paralyzed man would move in with a mind-reading skeleton. I can't imagine such skeleton would be a good housemate.
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I wonder if it really needs the exoskeleton? He still has muscles. With further refinement, and a lot of probes jabbed into those muscles, they could be made to contract as required. Even if only to assist the more precise controls of the exoskeleton.
great to see progress (Score:2)
meanwhile millions of children starving to death (Score:2)
... and we continue to spend money on making sure rich kids have make work that feels important so they can assuage their guilt, just more first world arrogance and mismanagement by evil greedy jerks
Re: meanwhile millions of children starving to dea (Score:3)
Ahhh, the Nirvana Fallacy.
That's pretty cool, I wonder if he has a sense of (Score:2)
We saw similar in the 2014 world cup in Brazil (Score:3)
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Human Locomotion is a horrible choice (Score:2)
Didn't the plot of "surrogates" start like this? (Score:2)
Why is it always herky jerky? (Score:2)
not walking (Score:2)
Can I have mine made as a Mach 2 plane? (Score:2)
Make mine a Mach 2 plane. Bonus points if you have to think in a language other than yours.
"Plane, launch missle"
*conk*
*clinkcclink*
*gukgukgukguk*
*ptooieptooie*
*muddlemuddle*
*fsssssssssshhhSssss*
*swizzleswizzle*
*beat*
"Plane, I said launch middle, not make me an old fashioned!!*