Researchers grow human brains in a lab
http://www.gizmag.com/lab-grown-mini-brains/28870/

Within the past few years, scientists have successfully grown organs such as kidneys and livers in laboratories. It’s possible that some day, such lab-grown organs could be used as transplants, particularly when grown from the recipient’s own cells. Now, a team at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has succeeded in growing miniature human brains. While no one is suggesting that they could be swapped in for a patient’s existing brain, they could prove to be a boon to the field of medical research.

The team, led by Dr. Jürgen Knoblich, started by analyzing human stem cells – a cell type that has the capacity to change into any other type of cell found in the body. Specifically, the scientists were interested in discovering what growth conditions are required for such cells to differentiate into various types of brain tissue cells.

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I wonder what they were thinking

Interesting, although calling them “human brains” is a bit silly.

What would you do with a brain if you had one?

Steve Martin had two

Dropbear said:

What would you do with a brain if you had one?

Five Incredible—and Real—Mind-Control Applications
Welcome to a dawning era of brain-controlled devices and actions.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130829-mind-brain-control-robot-brainwave-eeg-3d-printing-music/

Scientists achieved the first remote human-to-human brain interface this week, when Rajesh Rao sent a brain signal over the Internet that moved the hand of colleague Andrea Stocco—even though Stocco was sitting all the way across the University of Washington’s campus.

Using one human brain to direct another person’s body via the Internet was an amazing breakthrough. But other feats of mind control are already realities, particularly in the realm of human machine interfaces (HMIs).
Here are some amazing examples of what our brains can already do.

Compose and Play Music
Screen Mobile Phone Calls
Create a 3-D Object
Drive a Wheelchair—And a Car
“Bionic” Limbs

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I will add a multi 6 channel human machine interface (HMI). to basic robotic devices

that can do

house cleaning
mowing the lawn,
gardening
cooking
washing the car
washing clothes

all while reading a book in bed

this is exciting stuff

now imagine combining this technology of human to machine interface to attach to a miniature human brain then attaching both of those to a device

so your brain > to a human machine interface > mini human brain > device

the miniature human brain will be an extension of your thoughts directly controlling each device some with cameras, some devices might have other sensors

the multi channel interface could have any number of channels

directly controlling any number of devices

what a boon for productivity

I want one

now males can finally mufti task

:)

Mind reading: Scientists reconstruct letters from brain scan data
http://rt.com/news/read-brain-scan-letters-919/

Dutch scientists have made another step towards reading people’s minds by creating a computer program, which uses brain scans to decode what a person is looking at.

A team from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands was able to extract information from the human brain by applying a combination of high-resolution MRI, shape recognition software and computational modeling.

During the tests the Dutch researchers showed participants letters B, R, A, I, N and S on screen and were able to identify exactly when, during the scan, a person was looking at each of those letter.

“We’re basically decoding perception,” Marcel van Gerven, a co-author of the study, which is to be published in Neuroimage, told Wired website.

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Researchers in Kyoto Successfully Record Visual Data from Dreams
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/04/05/researchers-in-kyoto-successfully-record-visual-data-from-dreams

According to a recent report in Science magazine, researchers in Kyoto, led by the study’s lead author, Dr. Tomoyasu Horikawa, have gotten one step closer to accurately recording people’s dreams. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the research team was able to successfully record visual imagery from a group of sleeping test subjects. The study’s abstract summarizes their work as follows:

“Our findings demonstrate that specific visual experience during sleep is represented by brain activity patterns shared by stimulus perception, providing a means to uncover subjective contents of dreaming using objective neural measurement.”

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“….the miniature human brain will be an extension of your* thoughts directly controlling each device some with cameras, some devices might have other sensors…”

It changes the “your” thing, more interestingly, or less interestingly, depending on your operating ideas of “your”, or not.

And what ends up connected to what, I mean map “your” flow chart of operatons backward, just as a thought experiment, see where “enthusiasm” takes you.

transition said:

“….the miniature human brain will be an extension of your* thoughts directly controlling each device some with cameras, some devices might have other sensors…”

It changes the “your” thing, more interestingly, or less interestingly, depending on your operating ideas of “your”, or not.

And what ends up connected to what, I mean map “your” flow chart of operatons backward, just as a thought experiment, see where “enthusiasm” takes you.

Im pretty sure the sex industry will have the enthusiasm that will enable your partner to interact with you in ways to take you where you haven’t been before with your partner

we wont just have one interface, there will be many types of interfaces, some so subtle you wont even notice them, others so immersive it will be like virtual reality

some Human to machine interfaces will be fun, some will be very ubiquitous while others will be plain boring

>some Human to machine interfaces will be fun, some will be very ubiquitous while others will be plain boring”

You didn’t mean to say the other-than-ubiquitous ones maybe would be boring.

transition said:

>some Human to machine interfaces will be fun, some will be very ubiquitous while others will be plain boring”

You didn’t mean to say the other-than-ubiquitous ones maybe would be boring.

for musicians and 3D programmers etc this kind of tech will be ubiquitous

for gamers / sex industry it will be fun exciting

for checking out the house cleaning robot it will be just a mundane task

for some school children after the novelty wears off it might be boring

CrazyNeutrino said:

transition said:

>some Human to machine interfaces will be fun, some will be very ubiquitous while others will be plain boring”

You didn’t mean to say the other-than-ubiquitous ones maybe would be boring.

for musicians and 3D programmers etc this kind of tech will be ubiquitous

for gamers / sex industry it will be fun exciting

for checking out the house cleaning robot it will be just a mundane task

for some school children after the novelty wears off it might be boring

imagine scientist physicists, and astronomers who can get closer to their experiments