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POPSImmortality only 20 years away says scientist No thanks, I don't want to live forever. "Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively. "Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours without oxygen. "Heart-attack victims – who haven't taken advantage of widely available bionic hearts – will calmly drive to the doctors for a minor operation as their blood bots keep them alive. "Nanotechnology will extend our mental capacities to such an extent we will be able to write books within minutes. "If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain signals and take us wherever we want to go. Virtual sex will become commonplace. And in our daily lives, hologram like figures will pop in our brain to explain what is happening. "So we can look forward to a world where humans become cyborgs, with artificial limbs and organs."
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POPSBrain Develops Motor Memory For Prosthetics Stunning new research now reveals that the brain can also achieve this motor memory with a prosthetic device, providing hope that physically disabled people can one day master control of artificial limbs with greater ease
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POPSInjured war zone contractors fight to get care
Our federal government deemed it necessary to keep companies like AIG in business for the lofty reason that it helped our economy. They poured billions of our tax dollars into these companies coffers to keep them afloat. Now when it comes time to pay out, to give back to those taxpayers that bailed them out, to show their appreciation for serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, companies like AIG balk at having to do so. They refuse to follow through on their commitment. This is an example of the appalling greed that permeates the insurance industry. The fact that our federal government backs these stingy, money-grubbing, bastards makes me sick. This insurance system for civilian contractors is enforcing the idea that civilian contractors are disposable soldiers and is why socialism keeps rearing its ugly head. If insurance companies refuse to pay out, then our government will be forced to manage healthcare to ensure its citizens get the proper care they deserve.
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POPSThe Immaculate Designer Prosthesis Human morphology is not only matter of biology it is also a matter of fashion. Atztecs had a practice of reshaping their skulls. Chinese were reshaping females' feet. This is only the next step
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POPSAn End to Paralysis with Artificial Brain-to-Muscle Connectors Say the researchers: Until now, brain-computer interfaces were designed to decode the activity of neurons known to be associated with movement of specific body parts. Here, the researchers discovered that any motor cortex cell, regardless of whether it had been previously associated with wrist movement, was capable of stimulating muscle activity. This finding greatly expands the potential number of neurons that could control signals for brain-computer interfaces and also illustrates the flexibility of the motor cortex. Human implementations for the technology are at least a decade away, but this discovery could be a game-changer for dealing with paralysis. One possibility would be to connect the motor cortex with an area of the spine below an injury. Signals would be re-routed around the damaged spinal cord, and could allow the brain to regain control of the paralyzed body parts affected by the injury.
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POPSEmotional robots in the spotlight Robots displaying emotional responses, is one of the greatest challenges not only of robotics, but also in understanding ourselves. What exactly makes us emotionally engaged? Is emotional behavior corresponds to real emotions? What are real emotions anyway?
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POPSCourage of the Half Man His perseverance and fight for life, and a number of mobility aids, now help him negotiate the everyday activities of normal-bodied people. (DT)
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POPS"Techno-Doping" and the New Olympics The evolution of technological augmentation is progressing faster than natural human biology, and it's clear that it won't be long until these physical enhancements will completely out-class natural human sports capabilities. The growing likelihood that, within the next decade, the fastest humans alive will be "disabled" holds the potential for profound "future shock." As I wrote about last year (in "The Accidental Cyborg"), young athletes facing the choice between rehabilitation and amputation for leg injuries are starting to pick amputation, knowing that the prosthetics could be an improvement, not an impairment.
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POPSAmputee feels limb in chest They are learning to reconfigure Neural pathways. While the amputees has sensation in the chest, they could clearly disdinguish between the chest sensations, and the sensations for the limb. They hope the research will lead to restoration of nervous function to prostthetics
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POPSUltrastrong Carbon-Nanotube Muscles The nanotube yarn can be just 2 percent of the width of a hair--not even visible--but upwards of a meter long. According to Baughman, spinning these threads was "like hauling in a fish with an invisible line." In his conference presentation, he described yarns that could support loads 150 times greater than nanotube papers could.
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POPSMove the train with your brain "Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity." cracking the holy grail of mind control..
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POPSParalyzed for Life Gideon Levy's editorial about the Aman family, some of whom were killed, others maimed by an Israeli targeted assassination two weeks ago. The 3-year old girl, Maria, is paralyzed for life. A couple of points: * As Levy says, "An army that fires missiles at busy streets and tank shells at a beach cannot claim there was no intent to harm innocent civilians." * The IDF/IAF has done pretty much nothing about this family. No investigations. NO APOLOGIES GIVEN. The Israeli hopsital was set to discharge Maria and her uncle home to Gaza, where they would die of their injuries, were it not for the activities of Physicians for Human Rights who demanded the Israel approve & cover their hospitalization in the country.
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