Archive for the 'Mind Control' Category
Stanford Researchers Advance Performance of Thought-Controlled Computer Cursors
November 20th, 2012Via: Stanford University: Stanford researchers have designed the fastest, most accurate mathematical algorithm yet for brain-implantable prosthetic systems that can help disabled people maneuver computer cursors with their thoughts. The algorithm’s speed, accuracy and natural movement approach those of a real arm.
An Electrode Spun from a Single Carbon Fiber Can Record Neurons in Living Animals
November 12th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Connecting a human brain to a computer is as much a materials science problem as a biology one. What kind of interface is delicate enough not to damage nerve tissue, but resilient enough to last decades? Researchers have come up with what they call a “stealthy neural interface” made from a […]
Psychopathy’s Double Edge
October 28th, 2012Via: Chronicle of Higher Education: What I’m planning is a psychopath makeover, to find out firsthand, for better and for worse, what it’s like to see the world through devil-may-care eyes. Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
Fast-Food Logos ‘Imprinted’ in Children’s Brains
September 26th, 2012Via: Medical Daily: Childhood obesity is a growing health concern in the public sphere, but for many of us, it also hits close to home. But while public health campaigns have singled in on parents providing children with unhealthy nutrition options and with poor examples of healthy eating, new research indicates that some of the […]
DARPA’s Mentats: EEG Data Used for Threat Detection
September 20th, 2012During a recent email conversation about a related technology with a friend of mine, who, shall we say, knows more than a little about this subject, he wrote something that you might find interesting: Interesting approach. It sounds like they’ve given up on computers processing images and instead they’re trying to create a mentat. Maybe […]
Pauline Marois Possible Target of Quebec Election Gunman
September 6th, 2012[???] Via: National Post: Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois was abruptly dragged off stage by bodyguards midway through her victory speech Tuesday after a 62-year-old man wearing a blue robe and a balaclava allegedly opened fire into the theatre where she was speaking. Moments later, TV cameras showed a man in glasses being arrested and […]
Neuroscientists Successfully Control the Dreams of Rats
September 4th, 2012Via: io9: Researchers working at MIT have successfully manipulated the content of a rat’s dream by replaying an audio cue that was associated with the previous day’s events, namely running through a maze (what else). The breakthrough furthers our understanding of how memory gets consolidated during sleep — but it also holds potential for the […]
‘Mind-Control’ Gaming Devices Leak Brain Data That Help Researchers Guess Users’ Secrets
August 18th, 2012I’d classify this one mainly as entertainment for the moment, but it does really make one wonder what the next decade or two will hold along these lines… Assuming, of course, that we don’t turn our planet into a radioactive cinder. Via: Fortune: The budding field of brain-machine interfaces promises a science-fictional future where games, […]
Sikh Temple Shooter Served in U.S. Army Psychological Operations Unit
August 6th, 2012Wade Michael Page Was White Supremacist Via: CBS News: Before he strode into a Sikh temple with a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition, Wade Michael Page played in white supremacist heavy metal bands with names such as Definite Hate and End Apathy. The bald, heavily tattooed bassist was a 40-year-old Army veteran who […]
Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior with Light
July 26th, 2012Via: PhysOrg: Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics, a state-of-the-art method for making causal connections between brain […]
