July 25, 2003
Brain Power
Slashdot points to a fascinating article about efforts to create a wheelchair that can be controlled by brain impulses. I've had daydreams about such a device. I use an electric wheelchair but I rely on my nurses to maneuver me because I've never found a control system that reliably works for me. If they can perfect this technology, I'll be one of the first people in line for my very own Professor X chair. But I also have a question: if I'm rolling down the street and focus my attention on an attractive woman, will the chair start following her? Have the designers contemplated such hazards?
Posted by wintermute2_0 at July 25, 2003 07:47 PM
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This is a fascinating subject.
Have ou read Philip Pulmans trilogy "His Dark Materials"? In the last book there is a mind controlled flying thing the "intention craft", a similar idea but fictional of course...
Posted by: Harpa at July 26, 2003 04:21 AM
Chair that follow hot babes??? Sign up now... but of course you would need a special chip that would follow only NOW gang chicks... and we all know, they are soooooo....umm....well....never mind.
Posted by: naked in chair at July 27, 2003 07:44 AM