Mind-Controlled Robotic Arms
There has been a number of breakthroughs in prosthetic limbs connected directly to the brain. Here are a few related articles. None of them happen to be the one I was looking for, but oh well.
Robotic Arms Allow Paralyzed Patients to Grasp Objects
Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand Allows Woman to Pour Water
Biohackers
This one in via The Verge. This is where it all starts, in the garage (or at least mom’s basement).
Ok I would have embeded the video, but it would only embed at about 900 pixels wide. So here’s the link.
In a nutshell, these guys are doing some pretty invasive body modification.
Neuroware
Neuro-controlled fashion accessories. If that doesn’t scream body modification what does? Awesome. I want a pair. Maybe we can put them on babies before they can speak to help us communicate more effectively. Neuroware “necomimi”
From: JapanTrends.com
Kinetic Sculptures
These kinetic sculptures could be a very cool reference for the birdhouses and also for elements of the Skynests. These could be like BodyMods for buildings, where the buildings themselves are almost alive and functioning on their own – with strange organic junk sculptures that do things like power elevator-like conveyor belts.
Brain-computer implant has passed 1000-day milestone
This just in. Bioelectric BodyMods are real and here today. Thanks @greatdismal for the tip.
From Short Sharp Science blog on New Scientist website: ”
Brain-computer implant has passed 1000-day milestone”
Author: Helen Thomson, biomedical news editor
A paralysed woman was still able to accurately control a computer cursor with her thoughts 1000 days after having a tiny electronic device implanted in her brain, say the researchers who devised the system. The achievement demonstrates the longevity of brain-machine implants.
The woman, for whom the researchers use the pseudonym S3, had a brainstem stroke in the mid-1990s that caused tetraplegia – paralysis of all four limbs and the vocal cords.
In 2005, researchers from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, the Providence VA Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston implanted a tiny silicon electrode array the size of a small aspirin into S3’s brain to help her communicate better with the outside world.