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BodyTechnic: New Funding For Brain Implants
News The implants, hoped to one day allow paralysis victims to operate artificial limbs, are made of cone shaped glass and contain an electrode that picks up impulses from the nerve endings. The implants are then placed in the brain's motor cortex...
[December 3, 1998, 11:57]
BodyTechnic: New Funding For Brain Implants
Talkback Are you using this procedure with Christopher Reeve? If not, perhaps, you might offer him and the medical community an extraordinary contribution and medical miracle. We would be the first and reknowned pioneers of innovative scientific measures...
[August 30, 2003, 18:26]
Chip Implants Aim To Save Lives
News If your ageing father had Alzheimer's, would you plant a chip in his back to keep him safe? What about placing one in a teen with allergies? A Florida-based company is betting you would. On Friday, Applied Digital Solutions plans to implant chips...
[May 10, 2002, 10:30]
RFID Tags May Be Implanted In Patients' Arms
Talkback we are looking at the product rfid and we were wondering about implants being done in the london uk could you suggest a website or a place that implants them thank you.
[January 18, 2006, 17:25]
Company Memorandum: Watch Your Behaviour!
Blog I asked if this requires neural implants - you know, those technological devices that connect directly to a biological subject’s brain - but it seems a little talking to is all that is needed. Is this where neural implants come in?
[March 28, 2008, 8:26]
Smart Chips Get Under Our Skin Pt II
News Warwick has chip implants that allow him to open doors and operate his PC remotely. In 1998, scientists at Emory University in the US developed brain implants which could be controlled by the power of thought.
[January 23, 2001, 14:09]
Is The Mis-use Of IT Destroying Our Civil Liberties?
Forum Former PM Tony Blair and his successor have already shown their support for a national DNA database holding DNA for every UK citizen and the Home Office IPS (Identity & Passport Service) are also looking at RFID implants.
[September 19, 2007, 17:32]
Smart Chips Get Under Our Skin
News The biggest concern appears to be that once humans are fitted with computerised implants, all other Big Brother fears will look like a walk in the park. But such implants are no longer the preserve of fiction.
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
Under-skin ID Tags Generate Concerns
News The overriding idea behind tagging people with chips -- whether through implants or wearable devices such as bracelets -- is to improve identification and, consequently, tighten access to restricted information or physical areas.
[August 23, 2004, 15:05]
Exploring The Human-machine Frontier
News The thousands of us walking around with pacemakers or silicon implants are likely to joined by a new legion of those with surgically implanted microchips designed to make our lives simpler and more productive.
[December 28, 1999, 6:00]
A Year Ago: Exploring The Human-machine Frontier
News The thousands of us walking around with pacemakers or silicon implants are likely to joined by a new legion of those with surgically implanted microchips designed to make our lives simpler and more productive.
[December 28, 2000, 6:03]
Defending Against A Google Asault
News They were recommending implants to women that didn't need implants, and I just thought that implants are a very bad thing for women. So, I thought, let me start an all-natural magazine, which doesn't allow implants.
[March 6, 2006, 11:55]
Company Memorandum: Watch Your Behaviour!
Blog Comment We supply neural implants - known as memes. We seed those little ideas that get inside people's heads and pop up when they're least expecting them. Things such as "If I give someone my password, will they steal my identity?
[March 28, 2008, 5:30]
Company Memorandum: Watch Your Behaviour!
Blog Comment I still reckon brain implants are the future to a trustworthy workforce. Yeah, I'm all for scaring the bajeebers out of the unexpected. Though can't a meme propagate itself and can move through a 'culture' in a manner similar to the behavior of a...
[March 28, 2008, 15:02]
Couple Object To AOL Search For Spammer's Gold
News In May 2005, AOL won a $12.8m lawsuit against Davis Wolfgang Hawke and two other men who AOL says made millions by targeting AOL members with spam offers for everything from penile implants and spying software to diet pills, according to court...
[August 21, 2006, 8:55]
Nanotechnology Opens New Chapter In Digital Paper Story
News An example of surfaces worked on at the Institute includes an infection-resistant coating for hip implants. Researchers in South Australia are using nanotechnology to develop substances they hope will one day result in digital paper.
[June 30, 2003, 13:12]
Bugbear Tops Virus Charts
News It's important that all users ensure they are protected against Bugbear because it implants code that can log victims' keystrokes. Bugbear has claimed a second month at the top of the virus charts. Bugbear accounted for almost 30 per cent of all...
[December 2, 2002, 7:38]
Sweet-toothed Bugs Generate Electricity
News Early applications may include a charging mechanism to top up more conventional cells, with particular applications in surgical implants running from blood glucose and sensors extracting electricity from sucrose, fructose or other sugars in the...
[September 8, 2003, 16:35]
Researchers Warm To Magnetic Plastic
News Future uses of the plastic could include coatings for computer hard disks as well as roles in medical implants, as the body is much more tolerant of plastic than metal. The world's first practical plastic magnet has been created at the University...
[September 1, 2004, 18:25]
Tech's Future - Smart Dust And Ratbots
News Ratbots are being used to test the possibility of transmitting information between a living thing and a computer via implants. Smart dust, lily pads and ratbots. These technologies are far from being household names.
[January 16, 2003, 8:21]
