An occasional meme in science fiction stories is someone being able to control the actions of another using remote control. We may be closer to that, um, “vision” than we expect:
Now that pacemakers are to be loaded with firewalls and bionic-man body parts are appearing on production lines, the concept of body hacking has become a spooky possibility. Researchers in Japan have begun to try to teach people how to play instruments by remotely controlling their hands.
Developed by the University of Tokyo and Sony Computer Science Labs, the aptly named PossessedHand stimulates muscles that move our digits, New Scientist reports.
A belt with 28 electrode pads is strapped to the arm, sending signals to the joints between the three bones of each finger, with two for the thumb.
Ever since I’ve read this post I keep thinking of the TOS episode Spock’s Brain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock's_Brain
Comment by Publius — June 28, 2011 @ 08:28
It’s one of the more horror-tinged ideas in SF, that someone has the power to literally take over the bodily control of a person, remote-operating them as a biological robot. You don’t have to be a raving libertarian to see the dystopic possibilities for freelance (criminal) or professional (government) use of this kind of technology.
Comment by Nicholas — June 28, 2011 @ 08:45
This is a great news but is against the freedom of human life.This discovery hampers on ones freedom and it also makes a man as a robot.
Comment by biography of scientists — June 28, 2011 @ 13:06