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Re: Here Comes The Wetware

galarant — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:59:36 -0000

hey I hacked up an Emotiv controller to a slot car set last weekend. Check it out:

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roschler — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:11:48 -0000

Headset and SDK have been available for about a year now (speaking from experience).

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Anon — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:22:35 -0000

Did they actually put out the product this time?
The OCZ NIA has been available for some time now, there is an SDK that has been due anytime soon for a while and there is the pyNia and Triathon custom dev stuff.

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Davemac327 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:18:04 -0000

I see applications for stock trading. Gives new meaning to the term "cap and trade".

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guy31 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:17:50 -0000

" . . . but last week an NYU professor had a digital camera implanted in his head."

How is this relevant to the subject of brain/tech interactivity? This professor had a camera MOUNT implanted under his SCALP. It would be equally meaningful if the author had said, "just last week a 5-year-old stuck a USB flash drive up his nose."

Sewing a camera-mount into someone's head does not demonstrate a move toward increased mind/tech interactivity capabilities, and I have to wonder why this article would imply that it does. Giving the public exaggerated tidbits of tech-info for entertainment purposes is ultimately pretty useless.
How about writing an article that explains the difficulties being faced with wetware and provides areas for additional research? Maybe someone reading it will have an interesting idea, or get inspired to tackle a challenge. Instead, we just get a bunch of people gossiping about exaggerated technology and waiting for someone else to figure out the details.

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Johnniedawkins — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:43:17 -0000

What worms and trojans will they have any longterm effects on my unborn children

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Joshua Kronengold — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:53:29 -0000

Oh, yes, absolutely -- and if you follow my link to wictionary, they list DNA as an alternative to "your brain" for wetware. Custom written DNA would certainly be wetware, just human-written wetware, rather than natural wetware.

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AnthonyGadgetX — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:24:01 -0000

Interesting I've never seen a definition for WW. Some of that wetware would probably be the equivalent of 'electronics'. I could see for example having some DNA wetware that codes for rods & cones normally found in the Retina, re-purposed to talking to a computer with light.

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Shadowlayer — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:19:45 -0000

Even if I have the GodCare pack?

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Steve Miller — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:05:10 -0000

Agreed, no need to look further! bi-directional functionality, now that is a sensation..

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Jon — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:41:41 -0000

Awesome, now I will have no reason to move, sweet!

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Joshua Kronengold — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:24:18 -0000

Um...What he means here is -cyberware-. Cyberware is direct brain/computer interaction; electronics that becomes part of us. Wetware is...us. It's the ironic cyberpunk term for human beings, with usage being stuff like "a direct neural connection between your wetware and your deck [portable computer]".

It's called "wetware" because it's wet -- filled with blood and stuff!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/...

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Info — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:37:42 -0000

it is techlepathy...

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Jérémie Clos — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:00:56 -0000

At least for the first versions. I'm pretty sure if there is "sex on demand with whoever/whatever you want, as long as you want" at key, we will very soon see a lot of different ways to have "physical sensation/heat/pressure/weight/feeling of the other partner."

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Find A Flight Buddy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 04:19:15 -0000

The NYU Prof who had the camera implanted in his head was doing it for "art", however questionable. I doubt he is able to control the camera by his thoughts. This has nothing to do with the wetware the article talks about.

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Re: Here Comes The Wetware

Shadowlayer — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:28:37 -0000

Sounds great, all I want is a HUD with controls that actually work, no need for fancy stuff like laundry lists or flamethrowers

Although a thought-controlled bigass robot would be pretty cool...

Re: Here Comes The Wetware

Terry Joe — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:23:23 -0000

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Daniel Hernandez — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:09:18 -0000

Well, there are brain-computer connections out in the real world already. They are usually used for disabled people. These people get an invasive surgery that connects their brains to a computer that gets better at reading the particular subject's neuronal firings and brain waves.

I have been talking about this a lot recently. I truly cannot wait until we are able to interact with computers at such an integrated level. I think that at one point we wont need any sort of surgeries but will interact with them with brainwaves alone.

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Georgekane — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:16:39 -0000

lol..just worked it out G-g is god! :P

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RobMowery — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:32:46 -0000

There is also the OpenEEG Project ( http://openeeg.sourceforge.net... ) which has some interesting open source based eeg projects.

Also the next big issue in this field appears to be who owns/has access to the data stream coming from your brain. Most of the headsets have proprietary formats and require you to use purchase the SDK, which might not be so bad, except you still don't have access to all aspects of the data. On the Emotiv that has been temporarily circumvented by "Reverser/Hardware Hacker" Cody Brocious. http://www.kurzweilai.net/emot...

Just like the mobile phones being locked, unless something changes this area will also have the data stove piped and locked, which at present maybe not so bad, but in the future it will be, especially if bi-directional happens.

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NikolaiMinev — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:28:10 -0000

You have to root your brain first.
But you will lose your warranty from the creator.

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Anonymous — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:42:38 -0000

Yea, this with a nice library of pre-programmed AI will be awesome for porn. It will be virtually the same as sex, just no actual physical sensation/heat/pressure/weight/feeling of the other partner.