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MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Post by boboblong »

runhomequick wrote: post #25
debacle wrote: post #21

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An artificial means of controlling blood sugar would alleviate the insulin cycle and prevent the body from storing blood sugar as fat.

Or you could just quit eating so much sugar and other carbohydrates and do the same thing. There is no actual need for dietary carbohydrates.

Why don't you quit reading Hacker News? There's no need for it. In fact, there's no need for using the Internet at all. Hell, why are you even on a computer? All you really need is a warm fur coat and a hatchet. What are you, some kind of hedonist?

Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Post by MBlume »

Scaevolus wrote: post #36
sp332 wrote: post #28

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Your body uses glucose as fuel. You can generate it from other kinds of fuel sources, but unless you're in a diabetic coma, I guarantee your body has plenty of glucose in it.

Very little if you're on a ketogenic diet, which is often used for hard-to-treat epilepsy.

This -- on a good day my brain's running mostly on ketones

Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Post by cdooh »

slurgfest wrote: post #19
cdooh wrote: post #4

Anyone else read this title and think "Finally they've figured a way to let us have hard drives connected to our brains" or was it just me?:-D The technology is certainly interesting...

Funny that you would say this just as I am dealing with the fallout of a failing drive...

Good luck with that!! What tools are you using to retrieve the data? Or is it all gone?

Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Post by stcredzero »

TheSOB88 wrote: post #39
stcredzero wrote: post #8

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I keep thinking "You will be assimilated" You're using the future tense. Sorry, but it's already happened. and it's simultaneously a scary idea and strangely desirable. Again, lots of precedent, and it's historical precedent.

I agree. Wake up, sheeple!

I believe you are mistaken in both sentences.

Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Post by rogerbinns »

sp332 wrote: post #29
rogerbinns wrote: post #23

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Or even just manage blood sugar levels. It would be an immense help to the folks with type 2 diabetes.

There are already small devices that regulate insulin levels. How would this improve on those?

Type 2 diabetics have the issue where body parts become increasingly "deaf" to insulin. This keeps blood sugar levels higher for longer periods of time.

Re: MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

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Post by slurgfest »

cdooh wrote: post #43
slurgfest wrote: post #19

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Funny that you would say this just as I am dealing with the fallout of a failing drive...

Good luck with that!! What tools are you using to retrieve the data? Or is it all gone?

For the most part I have backups, configs are largely in git etc. However, some old work is gone since the drive itself is hardly functioning and I'm not paying for professional data recovery.

So if you get a hard drive installed in your head, make sure you have the same stuff backed up in git... and make friends with a cyber-dolphin...

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