Month: September 2022

HI-TECH BOLT-ON. "Wearable computers with power similar to that of the human brain will act as personal assistants or brokers, providing valuable information of every kind in forms optimized for the specific user." https://lnkd.in/d8zQAx9 View in LinkedIn

SENSORY PROSTHESIS. "We implemented a panoramic infrared (IR) sensory prosthetic system in rats; it consisted of four IR sensors equally spaced around the circumference of the head of the rat. Each sensor was coupled to a microstimulating electrode placed in the somatosensory cortex of the rat. Within days, rats learned to use the prosthesis to track down items associated with IR light in their environment." https://lnkd.in/dDk9Zb9 View in LinkedIn

CYBER-TONGUE. "This in vivo bioelectronic tongue in combination with BMI presents a promising method in highly sensitive bitterness detection and is supposed to provide new platform in measuring bitterness degree." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095656631530631X View in LinkedIn

ANIMAL-TO-ANIMAL BRAIN connections have kept forward in 2013 with some remarkable experiments. These experiments have fundamentally changed our thinking about the possibilities. View in LinkedIn

EXTERNAL CONTROL. "Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have emerged as a new paradigm that allows brain-derived information to control artificial actuators and communicate the subject's motor intention to the outside world without the interference of the subject's body." http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01319 View in LinkedIn

MONKEY TO MACHINE. "In 2000 Nicolelis and his colleagues described how they had reliably translated the raw electrical brain activity of an owl monkey named Belle into signals that successfully directed the actions of robotic arms based both at Duke and at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology lab 600 miles (965 kilometers) away in Cambridge, Mass." https://lnkd.in/dW64guv View in LinkedIn

MONKEY-ROBOTIC ARM. "In 2003, Dr. Nicolelis’s team proved that monkeys could use their thoughts alone to control a robotic arm for reaching and grasping." https://lnkd.in/dSauWYc View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE for this and next weekend features and article entitled Biocommunication and natural genome editing by G Witzany, a linguistic scholar with an expertise in biology. This article offers an additional mechanism for evolution by mutation, suggesting a mechanism by viral gene editing of the host. View in LinkedIn

THE PREMISE. “Theory of Communicative Nature. Living nature is structured and organized by language and communication within and among organisms.” A greatly overlooked commonality that should be a part of every definition of life. https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn

BIOCOMMUNICATION. “Besides human language and communication, every organism within its population is competent to use signs with which organisms can differentiate between self and non-self, and can exchange information about common coordinations and organizations of single and group behavior. These sign-mediated interactions are termed biocommunication.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn