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- The Age of Neuroelectronics Adam Keiper
- Brainwaves to be used as identification Pakistan Daily December 2005
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- 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
Patents
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
Walking
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
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- 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
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