Japanese Scientists Claim To Reconstruct Images From Brain Data 276
In a world first, a research group in Kyoto Japan has succeeded in processing and displaying optically received images directly from the human brain. Here's the Japanese press release for good measure. One step closer to broadcasting your dreams? The research is due to be published today in the US scientific journal Neuron
Predictably (Score:5, Funny)
Pics or it didn't happen (Score:1, Funny)
Expect any sample images in Japanese publication to be heavily pixelated.
Quick.. (Score:2, Funny)
Pixels (Score:2, Funny)
In the recent experiment, the research group asked two people to look at 440 different still images one by one on a 100-pixel screen. Each of the images comprised random gray sections and flashing sections.
100 pixels? Sounds like they were watching japanese porn...
World first? I think not! (Score:5, Funny)
THEY have been able to do this for decades! Where is your tinfoil hat now? Ha!
Not impressed (Score:5, Funny)
Dr. Walter Bishop (Cambridge) was doing this in the '70s.
Re:Kinda neat, not that exciting though (Score:5, Funny)
And imagine spending the next week try to figure out GIMP to be able to do anything with it~
Re:Beginning of the end for me (Score:3, Funny)
In all likely, you will find out your not nearly the perv you though you are.
Re:Dreaming Is A Private Thing (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe that's how we'll get a space elevator?
Re:Dreaming Is A Private Thing (Score:4, Funny)
He can probably already touch the moon. Don't you know your Vonegut?
Isaac's in heaven now.
I assume that Asimov got to tag the moon on his way by. Best speech opening ever.
Re:This is so cool! (Score:2, Funny)
"Okay nobody think of anything!"
"Your destruction has been chosen!"
"Who though of something?! I didn't!"
*Giant marshmallow blobs appear*
Re:Beginning of the end for me (Score:3, Funny)
Either way you're right, considering the thoughts I have, I definitely don't want to see what everyone else is thinking about.
Re:Feedback Loop? (Score:2, Funny)
IIIIIIIII tried tried tried ttttttttthhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaatttttt once once once once...............bbbbbbaaaaaaaaaadddddddddd iiiiiiiiiidddddddeeeeeeeeaaaaaaa.
Re:Dreaming Is A Private Thing (Score:5, Funny)
As to writing about stuff that never happened, THIS never happened - until now. The "hyperdrive" (what Roddenberry renamed "warp drive") was never invented - yet. Roddenberry and his writers were prescient, too. I remember a world without cell phones, flat screen talking computers, self-opening doors, and space shuttles (I remember a world without space travel at all).
Wow. Your UID should have a minus sign in front of it.
Re:Predictably (Score:3, Funny)
You mean "The subject was an underpaid, overworked grad student/postdoc, and the image was 'NEURON' in a blatant example of pandering to a specific high-impact journal to increase the likelyhood of acceptance."
Brainshots? (Score:3, Funny)
I haven't read the article yet. Does it include any brainshots? (Please, no JFK jokes...)
Re:Pixels (Score:3, Funny)
Random gray sections and flashing sections? Definitely Japanese porn.
Re:Feedback Loop? (Score:4, Funny)
Would looking at the image your brain is generating at the same time you are generating it create a feedback loop much like holding a microphone too close to a speaker?
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich?
Re:Dreaming Is A Private Thing (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry - If you don't recognize the quote and have no context, it's not funny at all.
Vonnegut [wikipedia.org] (misspelled in my post above) became honorary president of the American Humanist Association [wikipedia.org] after Isaac Asimov [wikipedia.org], their former president, passed on. As such, he had the somewhat awkward honor of addressing the Association at their first meeting after losing their president and had to come up with some way to say goodbye to Isaac and start his speech. (If you're unfamiliar with Humanism [wikipedia.org], it's an entirely human-based religion/philosophy. Its members are largely atheist or agnostic and practice strict scientific skepticism while shunning religious superstitions or unsupported beliefs - Heaven/Hell included. The idea that Asimov, as president of the AHA, would have any literal belief in Heaven would be ludicrous.)
According to Vonnegut, opening his speech with
Isaac's in heaven now.
not only did a great job of breaking the ice in a very awkward situation, but set the entire ball-room laughing out loud.
Re:No more lack of artistic skills for me (Score:1, Funny)
I have a similar memory from childhood. I was on a camping trip in Colorado. It was winter, and I can recall the soggy tumbleweeds slowly inching their way across the landscape as the frosty air whipped across our faces. There was a large fence around the power station which was right across from the basketball court. I remember shooting some b-ball when a couple of guys
Who were up to no good startin making trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared. She said "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air"
I begged and pleaded with her day after day but she packed my suite case and send me on my way she gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket.
I put my walkman on and said, 'I might as well kick it'. First class, yo this is bad - drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass. Is this what the people of Bel-Air Living like? Hmmmmm this might be alright. But wait I hear they're prissy, wine all that. Is Bel-Air the type of place they send this cool cat? I don't think so I'll see when I get there. I hope they're prepared for the prince of Bel-Air. Well, the plane landed and when I came out there was a dude who looked like a cop standing there with my name out. I ain't trying to get arrested, I just got here. I sprang with the quickness like lightening, disappeared
I whistled for a cab and when it came near, the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I can say this cab is rare
But I thought "Now forget it" - "Yo homes to Bel Air"
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie "Yo homes smell ya later"
I looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air