You will find more on this issue under the transhumanist section of this webpage look at above Issues J-Z

Links 

• The Age of Neuroelectronics Adam Keiper
• Brainwaves to be used as identification Pakistan Daily December 2005
• Kevin Warwick Professor of Cybernetics
• Couples' nervous system linked by implants in limbs 06.07.2004 By SIMON COLLINS, science reporter NEW When Kevin Warwick lifted his finger, his wife Irena felt as if a bolt of lightning ran down her palm and into her own finger. In what they billed as the first direct link between nervous systems, the couple had electrodes surgically implanted in their arms and linked by radio signals to a computer. Blindfolded for the experiment, they could feel when their spouse's finger moved. "For me, it was like my wife communicating with me," Dr Warwick said in Auckland yesterday en route to Dunedin's science festival.
• list of artificial intelligence journals
• Publications of the Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence The ones who developed the thought controlled robot
• Researcher attempts to become a cyborg
• The Application of Implant technology for cybernetic systems
• Bionetic/Cybernetic Implants
• The Cyborgization of Humanity
• Why life as a cyborg is better
• Brainfingers" Brain Actuated Technologies, Inc. Makers of Cyberlink™ Alternative Human-Computer Interfaces
• And the Disabled Shall Inherit the Earth Uninhibited about technological modification, they're poised to be the first posthumans
• SENTIENT DEVELOPMENTS BLOG ARCHIVE
• SENTIENT DEVELOPMENTS
• Smart Implants and the disabled
• Glove Won't Speak for the Deaf
• Culturelab UK
• Difference in Itself: Validating Disabled People’s Lived Experience JAMES OVERBOE
• Samaritan ProjectBiocybernetics Real World Applications of Virtual Reality Neuro-Rehabilitation Work Station Interventional Informatics
• Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc
• cyberkinetics NEW BrainGate™ Neural Interface System: First Clinical Trial Launched Cyberkinetics' first clinical product is the BrainGate™ Neural Interface System. Based on more than ten years of development at Brown University, the BrainGate™ System is intended to provide severely disabled people with a permanent, direct and reliable interface to a personal computer. The Company has initiated a pilot (feasibility) clinical trial of the BrainGate ™ System in up to five severely disabled people unable to use their hands. The implant is designed to allow signals from the motor cortex to be collected, processed and analyzed, eventually producing an interface with a personal computer. In this way, the BrainGate™ System has the potential to afford people the opportunity to use the computer as a gateway to communicate and control assistive devices in their environment.
• Brain Gate powerpoint presentation 2004
• Cyberkinetics first clinical trial of brain gate NEW Participants in the first phase of the clinical study must be unable to use their hands due to a spinal cord injury, stroke, or muscular dystrophy. In addition, clinical trial participants must be permanent residents in the greater Boston/Providence area.
• Wheelchair moves at the speed of thought
• Cybernetic brain
• Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics
• Implant resistance by eople
• Microchip Implants, Mind Control, and Cybernetics By Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, MD Former Chief Medical Officer of Finland December 6, 2000
• New Body Art: Chip Implants A Canadian artist has implanted microchips in her hands in a quest to explore the relationship between identity and technology in an era when life is increasingly regulated by gadgets and machines.
• University of Reading, Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group
• The AuRoRA Project studies if and how robots can become a "toy" that might serve an educational or therapeutic role for children with autism
• AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS
• Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web
• Cybernetic Transport Systems:

Journals

• List of cybernetics and systems journals
• Lecture Notes in Computer sciences
• Biological Cybernetics Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg ISSN: 0340-1200 (Paper) 1432-0770 (Online)
• Control and Cybernetics Journal of the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
• CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING
• Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Patents

• Artificial eye system
• Implantable ceramic valve pump assembly
• Cohlear implant communicator
• Neural prosthesis
• Biothermal power source for implantable devices
• Multi-phasic microphotodiode retinal implant and adaptive imaging retinal stimulation system
• Ultrasonic speech translator and communications system
• Method and device for the predictive determination of a parameter representative of the mental activity of a person
• Portable modular diagnostic medical device
• Methods of biomimetic finger control by filtering of distributed forelimib pressures
• Robotic teleportation method and system
• Hearing system
• Method and apparatus for brain waveform examination
• Multiple channel phase integrating biofeedback computing method
• Method for controlling functional state of central nervous system and device for effecting same
• Method and apparatus for repetitively producing a noise-like audible signal
• Apparatus for electrophysiological stimulation
• Sleep-inducing/interrupting audio system

Bionics

• Cyborg Liberation Front
• THE NEW BIONIC MAN Plastic muscles and silicon senses blur the line between man and machine. BY MIKE FILLON Illustration by Danilo Ducak
• Bionic man no longer fiction
• 100 Meter World Record is Broken
• New Advance In Fuel Cell Technology May Help Power Medical Implants
• Artificial Heart Could Be Approved for Wider Use
• Destination: CyborgMoving from flesh to silicon, humanity is transforming itself. Here's why you should welcome our cybernetic future
• "James Partridge, chief executive of Changing Faces, a nonprofitorganization for those who have severe facial deformities, was quoted as saying that the prospect of face transplants could hinder people's
  ability 'to face their disfigurement with confidence.'" as quoted in http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09FACE.html March 9, 2003 Making Faces
  By CHARLES SIEBERT
• DermaDoctor Oct. 2002
  Proteins such as erythropoietin and interferon are great at fighting disease, but it’s difficult to deliver them with conventional needles or implanted pumps. Medgenics, in Misgav, Israel, has come up with an alternative: a “biopump,” made from a patient’s own skin, that can painlessly produce and deliver just the right amount of a protein drug. Medgenics takes a matchstick-sized strip of the patient’s skin and cuts it into pieces called micro-organs, about 400 micrometers across. It then genetically engineers the micro-organs to produce the protein and monitors its daily production. After a week, the company implants just enough of the micro-organs in the patient to deliver the right dose. The biopump .....
• Opto-bionics Bionic eyes
• The American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• Futuristic System Brings Vision to Blind June 13 2002
• the world first artificial heart patient
• Cyborgization Improves Lives
• Thought-Controlled Prosthetics?
• THE SHADOW ROBOT COMPANY has developed the worlds most advanced dextrous Hand. NEW
• Darpa To Support Development Of Human Brain-Machine InterfacesDevices including "neuroprosthetic" limbs for paralyzed people and "neurorobots" controlled by brain signals from human operators could be the ultimate applications of brain-machine interface technologies developed under a $26 million contract to Duke University sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). NEW

Eyes

• Bionic eye will let the blind see Tuesday, 5 April, 2005, 12:37 GMT 13:37 UK
• Bionic eye offers new window on the world NEW
• Cell transplant restores vision NEW
• Satellite System Helps Blind People Navigate NEW
• Retinal prosthesis trial completes first phase of testing 8th May 2003 NEW
• Ambitious plan to give sight to the blind Sept.5th 2002
• Silicon retina enables electronic vision Sept 30th. 2002
• First look at 'bionic eye'Tuesday, 20 August 2002 An Australian-invented 'bionic eye' device is about to begin human trials.The device consists of a silicon chip inserted into the eye, which is designed to act like a retina — receiving images captured by a pair of glasses worn by the user.

Walking

• Osteoprosthetic
• Osseointegration: Where man meets machine -- Direct skeletal attachment of prosthetic limbs hasn't yet reached the U.S., but the results from Europe are promising.
• Presentation highlights: Osseointegration
• Osseointegration New Hope for Future Amputees?
• Berkeley Robotic lab
• Teams Build Robots That Walk Like Humans Saturday, February 19 2005 @ 05:00 PM CST

Cochlear Implants

• Implants are replacing sign language among deaf kids NEW
• Listserve on the cochlear implant lawsuit in USA
• Nanotology a whole webpage on nano as it relates to hearing NEW
• Deaf Liberation Front
• Will this Device put Cochlear Implant Industry out of Business? NEW
• Please click on the links for more information about action at the 7thInternational Cochlear Implant Conference 2002, from September 4-6th 2002. Somelinks critical of cochlear implants
• Mom can refuse sons' cochlear implants, says court
• Implant puts music in his life
• Symphony of SoundAfter 29 Silent Years, Ex-Miss America Hears Again
• NASA engineer recognized for 'medical marvel'

• Tracking devices

• RFID journal
• RFID news
• Association for automatic identification and mobility
• Stop RFID
• RFID.INC
• Electronic Privacy Information Centre
• RFID Hack Could Allow Retail Fraud e-week Hachman 29th. July 2004
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• THe RFId weblog
• Schoolchildren to be RFID-chipped July 08 2004 by Jo Best Japanese authorities decide tracking is best way to protect kids
• The trouble with RFID
• Another RFID blog
• RFID users say no privacy law needed
• GPS implant designed for humans 'tested'
• Benetton backs off RFID deployment The use of RFID chips in clothing to discourage theft took it on the chin Friday (April 4) when a major international clothing chain said it is not using the devices in its products The Italian company Benetton said in a release that it "is currently analyzing RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to evaluate its
  technical characteristics and ... no feasibility studies have yet been undertaken with a view to the possible industrial introduction of this technology." The surprise announcement came just two weeks after Philips announced that
  it would embed its RFID chips into the labels of every new garment bearing Benetton's Sisley brand name. The semiconductor maker estimated it would ship 15 million RFID chips, based on its I.Code integrated circuits, for
  that application.
• Would you microchip your child? The Guardian Wednesday September 4, 2002
• Chip implants 'become part of you'
• ID Chip's Controversial Approval Oct 23rd 2002
• Implantable Chip, On Sale Now Oct 25 2002
• Combining micro- and nano-technology, the network will consist of interactive, highly miniaturized, autonomous sensors
• Have you seen that ad everyone's talking about? The one with the perky teenager and her caring mother discussing her new implant
• The future is gaining on us ... have hope
• Sensors gone wild
• The Commercialization of Microsensor Motes

Brain Implants/Neuroengineering/Cognitive and Neurosciences

• Brainwave blog
• Monkey thinks robotic arm into action 18th Feb 2005
• Couples' nervous system linked by implants in limbs 06.07.2004 By SIMON COLLINS, science reporter NEW When Kevin Warwick lifted his finger, his wife Irena felt as if a bolt of lightning ran down her palm and into her own finger. In what they billed as the first direct link between nervous systems, the couple had electrodes surgically implanted in their arms and linked by radio signals to a computer. Blindfolded for the experiment, they could feel when their spouse's finger moved. "For me, it was like my wife communicating with me," Dr Warwick said in Auckland yesterday en route to Dunedin's science festival.
• cyberkinetics NEW BrainGate™ Neural Interface System: First Clinical Trial Launched Cyberkinetics' first clinical product is the BrainGate™ Neural Interface System. Based on more than ten years of development at Brown University, the BrainGate™ System is intended to provide severely disabled people with a permanent, direct and reliable interface to a personal computer. The Company has initiated a pilot (feasibility) clinical trial of the BrainGate ™ System in up to five severely disabled people unable to use their hands. The implant is designed to allow signals from the motor cortex to be collected, processed and analyzed, eventually producing an interface with a personal computer. In this way, the BrainGate™ System has the potential to afford people the opportunity to use the computer as a gateway to communicate and control assistive devices in their environment.
• Brain Gate powerpoint presentation 2004
• Cyberkinetics first clinical trial of brain gate NEW Participants in the first phase of the clinical study must be unable to use their hands due to a spinal cord injury, stroke, or muscular dystrophy. In addition, clinical trial participants must be permanent residents in the greater Boston/Providence area.
• BRAIN GATE: PLUG YOUR BRAIN INTO YOUR COMPUTER NEW Wired reports: Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from testing a brain-computer interface created by Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired muscles, using only their thoughts.
• Instant neural control of a movement signal. Nature. 2002 Mar 14;416(6877):141-2 NEW
• Mind over Machine Feb. 2004 NEW
• The Status of Brain-Machine Interfaces jan.16th. 2004 NEW
• Defense Department funding brain-machine work NEW
• Rat-brained robot does distant art NEW
• Brains can have wireless upgrades: NEW
• Monkey's brain signals control 'third arm NEW
• Snail Brain Merged with Microchip NEW
• Human Assisted Neural Devices NEW
• Brain Implants overview NEW
• Touch DFAR 398
• Is Better Best?A noted ethicist argues in favor of brain enhancement  By Arthur L. Caplan Scientific American; Sep2003, Vol. 289 Issue 3, p104
• neurotechnology and neuroethics
• Ultimate Self-ImprovementThe brain is still an enigma. But that won't stop us from trying to
  enhance mental functioning
• The brain of the futureAn Atlanta neuroscientist has wired the human brain to a computer. The
  results are fascinating and frightening.
• Japan will create brains in 20 years
• Total Recall The future of memory. By David Plotz
• First European School on Neuroengineering Massimo Grattarola Venice 16-20 June 2003
• Georgia Tech : Laboratory For Neuroengineering
• New 'Brain Fingerprinting' Could Help Solve Crimes
• Counterbalance Meta Library The Cognitive and Neurosciences
• The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
• Ethical Assessment of Implantable Brain ChipsEllen M. McGee and G. Q. Maguire, Jr.
• The World's First Brain Prosthesis New Scientist issue: 15th March 2003 NEW
• Building a Bridge to the BrainResearchers are close to breakthroughs in neural interfaces, meaning we could soon mesh our minds with machines NEW
• RESEARCH INTERESTS RELATED TO USCBP Berger Hippocampus NEW
• Brain implant may restore memory Berger NEW
• Dynamic synapse for signal processing in neural networks one of Bergers patents NEW
• Experimental implant under scalp zaps away headachesNEW
• Mapping the mind
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN NATUREby Charles T. Rubin
• 
  Some of the smartest people in artificial intelligence want to make human beings extinct—by replacing the body with an unlimited life of networked intelligence. Charles Rubin takes a critical look at this “extinctionist project”—what it is, what it means, and where it is heading. NEW
• Workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Agents and Multi-Agent Interactions During IJCAI'2003 9-11 August, 2003. Acapulco, Mexico
• AI companies database from Nanotechnologies Industries
• Quantum Laser Turns Electron Wave Into Memory
• The New AI: General & Sound & Relevant for Physics
• Schmidhuber and AI
• Cognitive Dissident
• Human face of 'androgynoid'
• The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics
• Rat neuron cells control new robot 18th Dec 2002
• Moving ThoughtsMoving Thoughts Scientists Study Brain Implants to Control PCs, Artificial Limbs
• Machine that reads minds gives disabled hope
• New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on. Sept. 30th 2002
• Inventor foresees implanted sensors aiding brain functionsSeptember 26, 2002
• New research adds to understanding of conscious awareness
• Gnod is my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and 'talking' to everyone who comes along.
• Beyond Human - New Age Of Cyborgs And Androids,
• Dalai Lama On Buddhism And Artifical Intelligence
• Virtual humans edge closer

Synthetic Biology

• My NBICS blog Here you find a lot of updates on synthetic biology beside what I add new to this page
• Wolbring (2007) Synthetic Biology 3.0 July 15 2007
  
• Synthetic Biology refers to A) the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems.
  B) the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes.
• Extreme Genetic Engineering: An Introduction to Synthetic Biology
• SyntheticBiology2.0 conference May 20-22, 2006, University of California, Berkeley
• Synthetic Biology:SB2.0/Biosecurity resolutions
• Open Letter to the Synthetic Biology 2.0 Conference in regards to the Biosecurity resolution
• discussion of societal issues associated with synthetic biology
• Caution urged on "synthetic biology" research May 18th 2006
• Synthetic and Systems Biology Journal
• News for the open source and synthetic biology community
• Call for Proposals on Synthetic Biology Planned Deadline – 1 February 2006 NEST (New and Emerging Science and Technology)
• Life Engineering SymposiumAugust 19 - 20, 2005 University of California, San Francisco - Mission Bay Campus
• Paul Rabinow's recent lecture on security & Synthetic Biology.
• Synthetic Biology 1.0The First International Meeting on Synthetic Biology June 10-12, 2004 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
• Open Wet Ware
• Synthetic Biology Bibliography
• Synthetic biology: Researchers mass produce genes on a chip Dec 2004
• Experts worry that synthetic biology may spawn biohackers
• Synthetic Biology in Practice
• Brenner group
• Gates foundation to promote synthetic biology December 2004
• Institute for One World Health
• Life, Reinvented January 2005 Wired Magazine
• Researchers creating life from scratch ‘Synthetic biologists’ build with one genetic molecule at a time Aug. 2005
• Synthetic biology: Starting from scratch October 2004, Philip Ball is a consultant editor of Nature. Genetic engineering is old hat. Biologists are now synthesizing genomes, altering the genetic code and contemplating new life forms. Is it time to think about the risks? Philip Ball asks the experts.
• From systems biology to synthetic biologyMolecular Systems Biology doi: 10.1038/msb4100007 Published online: 29 March 2005
• Codon devices Founded by leading scientists at the intersection of engineering and molecular biology, Codon Devices is working to pioneer the emerging field of synthetic biology. The company is currently developing its proprietary BioFAB production platform that is expected to accurately synthesize kilobase- to megabase-length genetic code, orders of magnitude more rapidly and less expensively than currently available technology. In the short term, product opportunities include comprehensive sets of biological parts for large-scale research projects, engineered cells that produce novel pharmaceuticals, engineered protein biotherapeutics, and novel biosensor devices. In the longer term, the company's core technology is expected to enable improved vaccines, agricultural products, and biorefineries for the production of industrial chemicals and energy.
• Synthetic GenomivsSynthetic Genomics, Inc., a company founded by Dr. J. Craig Venter, is developing new scientific processes to enable industry to design and test desired genetic modifications. Using the genome as a bio-factory, a custom designed, modular “cassette” system will be developed so that the organism executes specific molecular functions. Synthetically produced organisms with reduced or reoriented metabolic needs will enable new, powerful, and more direct methods of bio-engineered industrial production.
• Preparing the World for Synthetic Biology By Stephen Herrera January 2005
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  Artificial DNA

• First artificial DNA can create new forms of lifeLondon Times 25th Jan 2000
• DNA gets a fake fifth base
• DNA gets a fake fifth base March 2005 3-fluorobenzene, or 3FB
• Expanding the genetic code Science News, April 2, 2005
• New Motifs In DNA Nanotechnology
• Evolving Artificial DNA
• Artificial DNA: Methods and Applications edited by Yury E. Khudyakov and Howard A. Fields
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