Hardware Implants Mimic Brain Cells

An anonymous reader writes "PopSci is reporting that Ted Berger, a USC scientist, has been working to engineer a brain implant the mimics the functions of neurons. Early tests on rat brain cells have shown promise, and if successful, Berger's implant could remedy everything from Alzheimer's to absent-mindedness — and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch"

Had to be done

[Darth Hubris]

Press earlobe-eyeball-nose to continue

Java?

[HaeMaker]

Does it run Java?

1.4? 1.5? Colombian?

Let's do it RIGHT this time!

[StefanJ]

Let's build DRM into those artificial neurons, so that the Man of the Future loses bladder control and convulsively vomits if he tries to access pirated media.

You know.....

[LordPhantom]

I, for one, welcome our new hyper-intelligent engineered-brain rat overlords! I've also invested in cheese futures.

Re:Engineered humans?

[D4rk Fx]

feel-no-pain specimen....

Well, I hope that they do leave the pain part out. Otherwise there will be a bunch of robots running around screaming:
'Why was I programmed to feel pain!'

Re:Let's do it RIGHT this time!

[MoodyLoner]

I must be running a beta.

Or do American Idol and Survivor do that to everybody?

Re:When was the last time you encountered a glitch

[D4rk Fx]

I'd had to lose my mind as often as the average PC loses it's.

I'd say you already do.

Re:When was the last time you encountered a glitch

[Elemenope]

No, no, no! Obviously it's the new and highly successful shotgun approach to English grammar! Shotguns are the wave of the future in lingustics; don't you forget!

Re:unless you are testifying to congress...

[Opportunist]

No, it becomes "Sorry, had a HD crash".

Re:unless you are testifying to congress...

[Divide By Zero]

General error reading drive C.
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? f
C:\>

I'm sorry, Senator, I seem to have developed some bad sectors.

I can have dead brain cells repaired?

[Azathfeld]

YES! Time to go back off the wagon!

Re:Great mambo Chicken

[ciaohound]

At what point are you more machine than person?

Well, if Obi-Wan is any authority on this, I guess it's when you have both arms and legs cut off and you can't live without a breath mask and respirator.