Comments on: DARPA’s Next Prosthetic Arm Will Connect to Your Brain http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/27/darpas-next-prosthetic-arm-will-connect-to-your-brain/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Tue, 22 May 2012 17:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew Moseman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/27/darpas-next-prosthetic-arm-will-connect-to-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-381619 Andrew Moseman Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:03:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21906#comment-381619 Nick, Thanks for the link. I'll be very interested to see the two different approaches develop—especially whether the brain implant version really could become sufficiently more sophisticated to merit invasive surgery. DARPA has targets like a system that lasts for 70 years to avoid repeat surgery, but I'll believe that one when I see it. Nick,

Thanks for the link. I’ll be very interested to see the two different approaches develop—especially whether the brain implant version really could become sufficiently more sophisticated to merit invasive surgery. DARPA has targets like a system that lasts for 70 years to avoid repeat surgery, but I’ll believe that one when I see it.

]]> By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/27/darpas-next-prosthetic-arm-will-connect-to-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-379465 nick Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:29:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21906#comment-379465 This is so incredibly behind the times. European scientists already have a hand that connects to the nerves in a patients stump and communicates with the brains through said nerves, no brain implant required. It takes advantage of phantom limb syndrome. Pressure sensors in the hand give feedback to the brain. The patient can *feel* with this thing. Here's a video in case you think I'm full of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85Lpuczy3E Granted it's not as ambitious as the full arm above, but OTOH it doesn't required complex, unnecessary brain surgery, either. This is so incredibly behind the times.

European scientists already have a hand that connects to the nerves in a patients stump and communicates with the brains through said nerves, no brain implant required. It takes advantage of phantom limb syndrome. Pressure sensors in the hand give feedback to the brain. The patient can *feel* with this thing.

Here’s a video in case you think I’m full of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85Lpuczy3E

Granted it’s not as ambitious as the full arm above, but OTOH it doesn’t required complex, unnecessary brain surgery, either.

]]> By: Calgary Acupuncture Ciinic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/27/darpas-next-prosthetic-arm-will-connect-to-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-379160 Calgary Acupuncture Ciinic Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:25:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=21906#comment-379160 Very interesting topic and I'm looking forward to see in a near by future how people who suffered accidents can recover completely even with prosthetic arms or legs. Technology is moving so fast that it marvels me each passing day. Hopefully long standing traditions like acupuncture stay hand in hand with medicine. Very interesting topic and I’m looking forward to see in a near by future how people who suffered accidents can recover completely even with prosthetic arms or legs. Technology is moving so fast that it marvels me each passing day. Hopefully long standing traditions like acupuncture stay hand in hand with medicine.

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