Re: OT; latest tinfoil beanie technology

["Crash" <robosama@xxxxxxxxx>]

Which model chip did you get implanted?



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> Technology available to FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATHS is 30 years AHEAD of
> technology available to the american public.
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> ONLY LOW IQ SLAVES and MORONS are obsessed by tin foils and meds. Read the
> following and EDUCATE and PROTECT YOURSELF and YOUR FAMILIES from the EVIL
> AMERICAN GOVT PSYCHOPATHS.
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> EVERY AMERICAN will be MANDATORILY  INSERTED with a SYNTHETIC TELEPATHY chip
> in about 10 -15 years from now so the EVIL AMERICAN GOVT can know WHAT YOU
> are THINKING.
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> FDA already APPROVED verichip to be IMPLANTED in patients bodies. Just
> google for the words "verichip" and patients.
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> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/msg/8add8661de87ddc3?hl=en&;
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> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115274937020005165.html?mod=djemTAR
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> A start-up founded by leading neuroscientists will report that a
> patient in a clinical trial who had electrodes implanted in his brain used
> his thoughts to control a computer cursor, send email and operate a
> robotic arm.
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> Harnessing Thought to Help the Injured
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> By SHIRLEY WANG and ANTONIO REGALADO
> July 13, 2006; Page B1
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> Scientists have long dreamed of harnessing thoughts to allow amputees to
> move their prosthetic limbs or patients with brain-stem injuries to speak
> with the aid of a computer.
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> Results released today from a clinical trial of four paralyzed patients
> suggest the mind-control technology faces complex challenges but appears to
> be feasible. In the latest in a series of pioneering human tests of direct
> mind control over electronic devices, a start-up company founded by leading
> neuroscientists reports in the journal Nature that a patient who had
> electrodes implanted in his brain used his thoughts to control a computer
> cursor, send email and operate a robotic arm.
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> Engineers have envisioned using the mind to directly control devices for
> decades, but technological advances and better understanding of the brain
> have made actual tests in humans possible only recently. And some hope that
> new investments by the U.S. military will result in a few years in new
> devices to help veterans and others with devastating injuries.
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> "The whole field is bubbling up," says Philip Kennedy, chief scientist and
> CEO of Neural Signals, a closely held Atlanta company doing research in the
> field. While still at an early stage, excitement over early findings has led
> to increases in funding and attention.
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> The four-patient trial, including the patient described in Nature, uses
> what's known as a "neural prosthetic," an implant to record nerve signals
> inside the brain and use them to control electronic devices. The study was
> paid for and the brain implant built by Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology
> Systems Inc., a Foxborough, Mass. company.
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> Researchers caution that it will likely take a decade for brain implants or
> similar devices to come to market -- a long time for companies in the field
> to wait for a payoff. "This is a start, showing efficacy in a human, but
> still far from being a useful device," says Andrew Schwartz, a professor of
> neurobiology and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh who has
> conducted similar research in monkeys.
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> Scientists are pursuing a range of strategies to achieve the goal of direct
> mind control over machines. Some efforts measure signals inside the brain,
> others use brain waves that can be recorded outside the skull.
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> Creating a fast, reliable and, above all, natural way for patients to use
> limbs and senses that they thought were gone is the ultimate goal of the
> field of brain-computer interfaces, says Leigh Hochberg, a neuroscientist at
> Massachusetts General Hospital who is the lead author of the Nature article.
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> The study shows that "this part of the brain can still be used to control an
> external device even years after spinal-cord injury," Dr. Hochberg says.
>
> The large number of injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has
> motivated the government to accelerate prosthetics research. In February,
> the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off two programs
> backed by $48.5 million in funding to create artificial limbs, including
> ones that can be operated by the wearer's thoughts.
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> "We can have a big impact on people's lives. People who have been doing
> their part on behalf of the country," says Rick Needham, an engineer with
> Manchester, N.H.-based DEKA Research & Development Corp., which is being
> funded by Darpa. DEKA, whose president, Dean Kamen, also created the Segway
> upright scooter, is working on a sophisticated battery-powered prosthetic
> arm with rotating shoulder, elbow and wrist joints.
>
> To effectively operate such sophisticated devices, direct brain control
> could be useful. Scientists like Dr. Schwartz have shown that by placing
> electrodes in the brains of monkeys, they can listen in on nerve signals
> that tell them how an animal intends to move.
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> In one 2000 experiment, for instance, researchers at Duke University used a
> monkey's thoughts to control a robot hundreds of miles away in
> Massachusetts.
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> In the Cyberkinetics clinical trial, doctors have surgically implanted
> nearly 100 electrodes in the brains of four patients. Computer software was
> used to pick up signals from the patient's brains as they imagined making
> movements, such as moving their arms.
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> The patient whose experience was described in Nature is Matthew Nagle, who
> was paralyzed in 2001 when he was 21. He was the first person outfitted with
> the Cyberkinetics system. He was able to draw simple figures on a computer
> screen, and even play the videogame Pong, using his thoughts. Mr. Nagle's
> implant also was connected to a robotic arm, which he used to move an
> object, and a prosthetic hand, which he opened and closed.
>
> Mr. Nagle had the device removed at the end of his one-year trial in order
> to have an operation to assist his breathing.
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> Since 2004, Cyberkinetics has raised more than $17 million from selling
> stock and warrants to investors. The company's stock is traded on the OTC
> Bulletin Board, where stocks of small companies often trade when they can't
> meet the listing requirements for the larger Nasdaq market.
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> Joseph Pancrazio, program director for neural engineering in the division of
> extramural research of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
> Stroke in Bethesda, Md., says the Nature study "has tremendous implications
> for the application of brain-machine interfaces with people with
> disabilities." Given that so much earlier work with implants involved
> healthy monkeys, their employment in injured humans is "a major milestone."
> The institute spent $25 million on neural prosthetics in 2005, he says, and
> funded work that led to the current study.
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> Not all scientists in the field are ready to be impressed yet. "I'm asking
> myself, what was the advantage that the patient got?" says Miguel Nicolelis,
> a professor of neurobiology at Duke University. "What has been accomplished
> could have been accomplished from noninvasive methods?"
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> The New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany, N.Y.,
> has been working on using a less-invasive technology, a brain-wave cap,
> which fits much like a swim cap, to allow patients to email from their
> homes, according to Jonathan Wolpaw, who heads the center's laboratory that
> studies nervous-system disorders. The first patient, a scientist in his late
> 40s with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, was fitted
> with a brain-computer-interface system in February and can send emails at
> the rate of a couple words a minute. A second user, an ALS sufferer in his
> late 60s, will be fitted with the system this month. The entire system costs
> less than $5,000.
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> Dr. Wolpaw's research program, whose funding comes from the National
> Institutes of Health and various private foundations, is looking into
> establishing a nonprofit company for this technology in the next few months.
>
> For a few patients, any connection to the outside world may be of value.
> Neural Signals is in the process of harnessing brain-computer-interface
> technology to restore conversational speech in people who have lost the
> ability to talk. An electrode is implanted into one brain region involved in
> speech, Broca's area, and a computer tries to translate the patterns into
> sound.
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> The company has implanted electrodes in five patients since 1996, according
> Dr. Kennedy, the CEO. Their current patient, a 23-year-old who suffered
> brain-stem trauma from a stroke following a car accident, received the
> implant in December 2004. He has limited ability to move just his eyes.
> After his semiweekly sessions using the system, he is able to make seven
> sounds or short words, including "yes" and "no." The goal is to give him the
> ability to speak 100 words, a goal that is reachable within the year,
> according to Dr. Kennedy.
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> Write to Shirley Wang at shirley.wang@xxxxxxx and Antonio Regalado at