This was on CBS last Sunday...
December 18, 2012
Jan
Scheuermann uses a robotic arm, wrist and hand to feed herself in this
video provided by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Scheuermann, a quadriplegic, controlled the arm using a brain-computer
interface following surgery to impl
Some subscribers to TIPS might be interested in a
recent post "Why Democrats in Congress Fail To
Support Climate Change Legislation #2" [Hake
(2013)]. The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: In my discussion-list post "Senator
Sheldon Whitehouse - Time to Wake Up:
NOTE: Post #3 to Tips today.
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:58:36 -0700, Paul Brandon wrote:
Strictly speaking, they have shown that brain activity in response to
spoken
instructions can be detected and linked to a computer, and some interesting
observations about the interactions among the various bra
Strictly speaking, they have shown that brain activity in response to spoken
instructions can be detected and linked to a computer, and some interesting
observations about the interactions among the various brain structures
involved. Thoughts are an inference.
BTW -- monkeys can do it to.
Can t
Researchers at the University of Washington have shown that after
implanting electrodes into human brains, the persons with the implants
were able to learn how to move a cursor on a computer screen just
with their thoughts. The UW has posted this press release describing
the research in some deta
I get Tips in digest format but I usually check the Mail-Archive to see
what people have posted and that may need a more or less immediate
response. However, in today's digest, there are a couple of posts by
Rick Froman that don't appear on the Mail-Archive website. I point
this out because the
