{"id":10047,"date":"2011-06-27T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10047"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T15:49:09","slug":"bodyhacking-is-closer-than-you-may-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/27\/bodyhacking-is-closer-than-you-may-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodyhacking is closer than you may think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;vision&#8221; than we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.com\/2011\/06\/27\/scientists_hack_hands_and_teach_music\/\" target=\"_blank\">expect<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the University of Tokyo and Sony Computer Science Labs, the aptly named PossessedHand stimulates muscles that move our digits, <em>New Scientist<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;vision&#8221; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[129,85],"class_list":["post-10047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-technology","tag-hack","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2C3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10048,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10047\/revisions\/10048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}