'Telepathic' microchip could help paraplegics control computers

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Moved from the Offtopic section by iC1

A 'telepathic' microchip that enables paraplegics to control computers has been developed by Dr Jon Spratley, a British scientist.

Dr Jon Spratley says his device could motor neuron sufferers such as Stephen Hawking, operate PCs and television by thought alone.

The chip is implanted onto the surface of the brain, where it monitors electronic 'thought' pulses.

While paraplegics may be unable to move their limbs, their brains still produce an electronic signal when they try.

The new chip captures this 'thought' and transmits it wirelessly, via Bluetooth-style technology, to control a range of simple devices.

It means paraplegics, amputees or those with motor neurone disease, such as Stephen Hawking, could be able to operate light switches, PCs and even cars by the power of thought alone.

The technology is the idea of British engineer Dr Spratley, who developed it while studying for a PhD at Birmingham University.

Dr Spratley, 28, from Stevenage, Herts., said the main aim of his research is to "help patients communicate."

"We are just trying to help people with severe communication problems or motor neurone disease - like Dr Stephen Hawking or Christopher Reeve," he said.

"What we have designed would allow them to control a computer with their thoughts - if they imagine their muscles moving that could flick a light switch for example."

Dr Spratley works for specialist engineering company 42 Technology, based in St Ives, Cornwall.

Using his micro-engineering and nano-technology skills he developed a tiny sensor which could be implanted onto the surface of the brain.

The device picks up neural signals from the brain's motor cortex, and captures the moment a paralysed patient tries to move their limbs.

This impulse is then transmitted to a relay station implanted in the skull, which in turn sends the signal to a receiver housed in simple computers.

Tests have shown the technology to work in the laboratory, but trials are yet to begin on humans.

Dr Spratley, who was awarded the MediMaton prize by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, claims implanting the chips will require minimal invasive surgery.

He said it could change the life of a quadriplegic or motor neurone disease sufferer.

"It began as an investigation into what signals paralysed people can generate," he said.

"If they can imagine using a limb, even if they can't move it, you can tap into that signal.

"Then you just have to imagine moving the muscle and the leg will move, the brain will train itself."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news...-computers.html
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I will shift this later. Comments & Thoughts welcome. I believe this will be used for something much more sinister.

[Shinobi]

Okay .. I left this here hoping some intelligent ones would pick up on it:)
no disrespect to anybody mind you.. but the tech involved here is some serious tech
and I would not have posted this otherwise if I didnt think someone from our very own forum
would have gave a grand response. Well to those that know me on here
You so know that im moving this to our mind control section
but im letting it sit here just for one more day awwww lol

(That is unless Ctrl kicks me in the goolies and just shifts it lol)

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http://forum.conspiracycentral.net/index...opic=29908 :geek:

[mastermg]

Yeah I can't wait to see these work in reverse. Instead of controlling the signal by your thoughts, I bet it could control your thoughts with external input signals.

[TeslaandLyne]

Pressure wave (scalar) electrical signals would be able to send messages
without any chips implanted.
That research perhaps is not divulged.

[Easy Skanking]

Perhaps?
Definitely not. The only person that I have heard addressing the brain being a scalar interferometer in any scientific fashion is Tom Bearden. That is a plausible explanation for pyro- and cyrokinesis as well as telekinesis. Telepathy, IMO, operates under different principles. So, I say it's entirely possible to control external equipment if it is set to receive the proper scalar frequencies. Not that this will ever come up in the US, despite some equipment being able to be used for those purposes. Russian literature would probably go into it. I know western mainstream science is still ignorant of scalar technology. Now as far as black ops or private corporate experiments, it is pretty much open to conjecture.

[TeslaandLyne]

A person would have to be wired to a transmitter to control objects.
No problem as sticking wires to the right place seems routine now.
The thought to action say to turn on the computer might be done
through a transmitter pack.
Normal transmission with EH Hertz waves.

The remote transmitter to control a human will never be
divulged.

[Apocalypso Now!]

The lead scientist is a man called Dean Pommerleau.

Hes is also a very motivated member of this gerontological society:

http://www.crsociety.org

usually their logo is on a light blue background

http://www.crsociety.org/themes/crs_theme2/crsociety_logo-c70.png

looks creepy. very kinda 'illumined' - anyhow, he's the intel brain chip guy it says on the internet.

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turn the technology into a weapon and people will have no control over what their bodies do - like the cars that will stop if a thought crime is commited - people will just get remotely paralysed if they move suspiciously LOL or turned on each other. K.Vonnegut imagined that in a book already but that part was set on Mars

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A serpent style S in the middle of the 'sun' - which can pass as the O - osiris)