A prosthetic hand restored my sense of touch
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Re: A prosthetic hand restored my sense of touch
#2This is cool. I hope some day someone invents a reliable way to stimulate neurons without having to use physical wires.
Re: A prosthetic hand restored my sense of touch
#3This is cool. I hope some day someone invents a reliable way to stimulate neurons without having to use physical wires.
I misread the word wires with wives, and was confused for a second
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#4Apparently even simpler sensor arrays can trigger the brain's perception of physically connecting to another human being-- and the whole emotional cascade that goes with it. If the guy isn't an edge case or exaggerating, this could be an indication of a watershed moment for neural interfaces.
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#5He mentions he’d want to feel temperature through this tech, and all I can think of is, what if it gets hacked.
Nonetheless, great accomplishment for humankind.
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#6Not a direct comment on the article, and I don't want to be a Debbie Downer here, but aren't neural interfaces like Neuralink and other things the absolute perfection of means for societal control? No doubt they are unimaginably useful, but they're also a dictatorship's wet dream. Is it not only a matter of time before they're installed in every baby's brain by government mandate in authoritarian regimes?
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#7For those interested in this area I recommend:
It’s cheap and I’ve watched it be developed since the beginning. There are multiple ways to restore a sense of touch, this appears to use the method which stretches in the skin.
There’s also a method of restoring the senses that uses electrical current. It was fun to watch all the undergrads in the lab electrocute themselves lol. The reality is skin stretching is consistent; where as how electricity flows through the body varies wildly between people.
The one linked in my comment uses vibration:
https://www.psyonic.io/ability-hand
Which has less of an impact long term (Aka drying out skin from twisting, etc)
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#8One interesting application is hooking Jason up to other robotic hands reaching into environments where human hands can't work.
Like a hot oven, space vacuum, or maybe micro surgery.
If the hands implement the same signal protocol, he should be able to switch them out.
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#9Not a direct comment on the article, and I don't want to be a Debbie Downer here, but aren't neural interfaces like Neuralink and other things the absolute perfection of means for societal control? No doubt they are unimaginably useful, but they're also a dictatorship's wet dream. Is it not only a matter of time before they're installed in every baby's brain by government mandate in authoritarian regimes?
Control how? Like inducing pain remotely?
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#10For those interested in this area I recommend: https://www.psyonic.io/ It’s cheap and I’ve watched it be developed since the beginning. There are multiple ways to restore a sense of touch, this appears to use the method which stretches in the skin. There’s also a method of restoring the senses that uses electrical current. It was fun to watch all the undergrads in the lab electrocute themselves lol. The reality is sk…
straight out of csl!