MIT's Technology Review:
An article that lists brain-machine interfaces as
one of the 10 emerging technologies that will change the world:
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jan01/tr10_nicolelis.asp Mind over Muscle:
When two emerging technologies meet, paralyzed people can move their limbs-just by thinking about it.
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/mar00/chase.aspBrain Implants: Paralyzed patients control computer by thinking A review of what is currently being accomplished by scientists and patients
Professor to wire computer chip into his brain This summer, a professor plans to take a step closer to becoming a cyborg --
part human, part computer -- by implanting a silicon chip that communicates with
his brain.
Robo-eels, critters on chips lead cyborg pack Melding animals and automatons, researchers have concocted a growing number of bizarre cyborgs that could transform science and perhaps the human species itself.
Robot with a fish brain Scientists are using the brain of a fish to control the behavior of a robot.
The research ... may one day help in the design of new 'intelligent' artificial
limbs that 'talk back' to the brain...
