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	Inside Your Mind

Sorgalim

3-6-2007 5:36 PM

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technologies, mind control, physical, virtual, disabled people

Sorgalim says:

American scientist John Donoghue is masterminding a brain implant called Brain Gate.

For the first time, it allows people to move physical objects by thought alone.

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