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EETimes.com - Retina implant receives signals, energy wirelessly: Apr 6, 8:34am 1 review science, cybernetics
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206903101; this ties in quite nicely with this, although it may be a while before the two come together...

Nerve-tapping neckband used in telepathic chat - tech - 12 March 2008 - New Scie…: Apr 6, 8:08am 18 reviews science, cybernetics, voice-control
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13449-nervetapping-neckband-allo...; another useful step in the right direction. One of the problems with talking to your computer rather than typing at it, is that you can cause severe annoyance to your wife and other near neighbours. (Imagine an open plan office with everyone talking to their computers). Thought controlled "talking" will eliminate that problem. I want one of these as soon as they're on the market please...

The Boston Retinal Implant Project - Mission Statement: Apr 6, 7:36am 1 review health, vr, cybernetics
http://www.bostonretinalimplant.org/implant.php?fontsize=normal&hicontrast=; Damn! Looks like we're going to get this somewhat quicker than I suggested...

Eyes on prize: Visionary device gives hope - BostonHerald.com: Apr 6, 7:33am 0 review vr, cybernetics
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1078909

Sony Rolls Out Worlds Smallest Full HD Camcorder: Apr 3, 4:48pm 1 review science, cybernetics, trusted-surveillance
http://www.physorg.com/news126447134.html; consider this a first generation, rather too expensive, rather too bulky, but nevertheless valuable proof of principle of the capacity for high resolution "life logging" necessary for Trusted Surveillance. Generation 5 or 6 should see it reduced to something we can build unobtrusively into spectacle frames (or sunglasses for those who don't have a vision problem) and generation 10 will see it as in implant.

Working memory has limited slots: Apr 3, 3:54pm 2 reviews cognitive-science, neurology, cybernetics
http://www.physorg.com/news126432902.html; That is the first cybernetic implant I want - something which boosts my working memory to, say, at least 100 bytes, preferably 100 megabytes. Imagine being able to memorise all of Shakespeares Plays after one exposure and you get some idea of the kind of effect I'm after...

Next, I want a major upgrade to my existing long term memory which is inaccurate, unreliable, slow, arbitrarily indexed and generally not up to modern specs...

DARPA&039;s Amazing Robot Pack Mule Keeps its Balance On Ice | Popular Science: Mar 27, 3:09am 2 reviews robotics, cybernetics
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-03/darpas-amazing-...; probably the first demonstration of artificial footwork which exceeds natural (animal) abilities...

Stanford researchers developing 3-D camera with 12,616 lenses: Mar 27, 3:03am 2 reviews science, virtual-reality, cybernetics
http://www.physorg.com/news125159442.html; this, I suspect, will nudge us another step towards good VR. There is clearly a problem with the way we reproduce 3d vision in headsets and it's at least partly to do with the fact that each eye is presented with a prefocussed image of an object at, say, 20 feet away, while the eye "knows" it is focussed on something only inches away. The cognitive dissonance this causes produces nausea in most users within half an hour. I'm sure that part of the solution will be to present each eye with unfocused data which it has to work on in much the same way it does in the real world. The "depth map" images made possible by devices like this could be the way to achieve that. Which would make this an exciting breakthrough...

iTWire - Ten times more energy-efficient microchip recharges itself: Mar 27, 2:50am 2 reviews science, cybernetics
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17183/53/; all these things (mind control devices, low power chips, optical bypass; even Kevin Warwicks arm implant etc) come together to create the platform for the first generation of true cybernetics and it'll be a commercial proposition within a decade. Carrying around a mobile phone or a laptop will be a very old fashioned way to behave by 2025.

Mind Gaming Could Enter Market This Year: Mar 27, 2:36am 7 reviews science, virtual-reality, cybernetics
http://www.physorg.com/news124723221.html; these primitive mind control devices are only for games this year. Look back on them in ten year from now and you will be amazed how widespread this technology has become...