London Scientists have managed to link up a Lamprey's brain to a robot! Looks pretty gruesome work, but has huge potential in controlling artificial constructs (such as prosthetic limbs) directly from the brain. "Totally awesome, but how is this going to affect me and my gaming?" you ask? Imagine that the artificial thing you are controlling is a computer game character. All you have to do to walk/run/dodge/shoot is think those actions directly! Bring on wetware!

thats a wicked article. with that technology, we have the potential to be extremely lazy. put a chip in everything (remember the v-chip in the sp movie?) and make the dog/cat/fish feed themselves, let themselves in/out. and then there is rude things like willing an instant erection with your bionic tackle. but as for fps games(hmm to have a mouse k/b chip in your head??) i reckon at a lan or sub 20 ping on the web everyone would have 99.5 accuracy rates cos you only have to look at them and think FIRE!! or whatever instead of the room for error in hand eye coordination. if ppl had mouse k/b implant and 99.5% accuracy they are in fact a bot, and should they be kicked?...

Disclaimer: this post may have been drug induced

Can anyone say "Matrix"? :)

Cerb

well nerve fibres are pretty damn slow at transmitting signals (carmack said it was like the equivilent of modem pings or something) so a way of bypassing them (usb connector at the back of the neck :) would be really cool for gaming

Yeah, interesting point, ineff. In drag racing they have a 400ms delay between the last yellow light and the green. The drivers actually hit the gas on that last yellow, and it takes that 400ms for the driver's reaction to happen, and then the car to get itself moving (which I guess would not take too much of that 400ms)

I also heard people (scientists) saying that it's physically impossible for a cricketer to react and swing the bat in the time it takes to go from the bowler's hand to the batting end. And yet they do it all the time, and can even change the shot as the ball bounces.

Cerb

its because of emotional reactions rather then direct intellectual reactions (could be wrong here but i remember a doco about it, theres like a thing if a person was a giant itd take so many hours for s*** to happen but it really would happen fast). anyway
SIF vrbones isnt the king of AI news

about the bot thing, when you think about it. Its kinda like drug cheats in sport.

something I've never really understood, these people go and artificially enhance thier own bodies at risk of f***ing themselves over and they get disqualified.

Wouldnt implanting your controlling device in your head be the same thing in cybersports?

yeah but some fagot like hitman would complain and qgl would let them play anyway