First thought reading brain chip implanted in US

August 21st, 2006 A new buttonless handset by Pilotfish and Synaptics heralds a new generation of mobiles which understands your signs and gestures and your cheek too. Onyx device understands signs and gestures, thanks to the sensitive touch pad covering most of its surface.

June 8th, 2007 Imagine the best way to give dictation (without spelling mistakes) or to program without typing and that pesky carpal tunnel syndrome - by pure mind control alone. Scientists at Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems (and others) have made this possible; as published last week in Nature.

August 13th, 2005 Pig brain cells could be implanted into human brains in USA by the beginning of next year if trials of a pioneering treatment for Huntington's disease are approved by FDA. Similar tests on primates have proved "astonishingly successful" in treating the degenerative brain disease, according to researchers who carried out the work at Living Cell Technologies (LCT) in Auckland, New Zealand.

May 24th, 2006 Honda scientists have created Brain Machine Interface that translate thoughts into electrical signals which can be used to control machinery. It doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or even extensive training - a major advance over past thought-controlled technologies.

June 28th, 2006 Cell phone emissions excite the part of the brain cortex nearest to the phone according to a study published in the Annals of Neurology. Dr. Paolo Rossini of Fatebenefratelli hospital in Milan and colleagues used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation or TMS to check brain function while people used these phones.

August 11th, 2005 A voice synthesiser powered by thought alone could one day enable severely disabled patients to converse more instinctively. At least, so thinks Philip Kennedy of Georgia, US, who is developing a brain-activated speech system with backing from the US government's National Institute of Health.

October 7th, 2009 Obama awards national science, technology medalsWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted defibrillators, mapped the human genetic code and made global positioning systems possible. Awarding the National Medal of Science and the Medal of Technology and Innovation, Obama said the United States must continue to invest in "the next generation of discoveries and the next generation of discoverers." Repeating his pledge to put thousands more students in college classrooms, he committed to spending 3 percent of the gross domestic product to educate future scientists and researchers.

April 27th, 2005 Yukiyasu Kamitani of ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, and Frank Tong of Princeton University demonstrated the ability to correctly identify images viewed by volunteers using MRI scans of brain. The scientists wrote a computer program that recognized the patterns and found that they could successfully predict what images subjects saw.

October 17th, 2008 First study of its own kind done by the UCLA scientists reveals that Internet searching triggers some factors that increases the brain functioning of the middle- aged and older adults. This breakthrough issue will be soon published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

July 13th, 2005 Implanted Fetal Stem Cells Survive 16 Months and Multiply 10 Times as Fast as Adult Stem Cells Young Lives gets fighting chance with Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants Cord Blood may become Key Source of Stem Cells Illinois Stem Cell Research gets $10 million India’s Apollo to set up Stem Cell Therapy Centres World Stem Cell Map Stem Cell Therapy For Spinal Injury

May 27th, 2005 LATimes has a scathing editorial on the Stem Cell hypocrisy practiced by Bush and his government. Photographs in Wednesday's papers of President Bush with cuddly little babies, all of whom were produced from surplus fertilized eggs at fertility clinics, represent a White House attempt to deal with the biggest flaw in logic regarding its stem cell policy — and its moral weak point.

August 9th, 2005 In September 2004 Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, had shown that elaborate false memories - for instance, of being lost in a shopping mall as a child - can be implanted in people's minds (New Scientist, 6 September 2004, p 42). Subjects even go on to embellish these fictitious events with their own details.

June 23rd, 2006 It has been estimated (Kurzweil) that our brains can calculate at 10 petaflops per second, based on the number of neurons and the average number of connections per neuron. Riken has developed a supercomputer that it says achieves maximum theoretical performance of 1 petaflops (1,000 teraflops).

July 29th, 2006 She awakes early on the morning of April 10, 2030, in the capable hands of her suburban Chicago apartment. All night, microscopic sensors in her bedside tables have monitored her breathing, heart rate, and brain activity.

April 27th, 2005 Stanford scientists (Yuichi Hori1, Xueying Gu, Xiaodong Xie, Seung K. Kim) were able to transform "brain-derived human neural progenitor cells" (read stem cells from brain) to glucose responsive insulin producing cells after subjecting them to signals that regulate islet development.