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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (38121)	11/16/2000 4:19:44 PM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

you see what SUNW said on their call??? must have been BAD

To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (38121)	11/16/2000 4:32:52 PM
From: NOW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Scientists show brain waves can move objects -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Now if we can hook Lucretious up to this machine...) NEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters Health) - In what sounds like the plot from a Stephen King novel, scientists have found a way to use the mind to move matter. In experiments with monkeys, they were able to harness the animals' brain waves to "will" a robotic arm to move. This suggests that one day, paralyzed people may be able to move prosthetic limbs simply with the power of their minds, according to a report in the November 16th issue of Nature. Dr. Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, led the study. "It was an amazing sight to see the robot in my lab move, knowing that it was being driven by signals from a monkey brain at Duke (University)," study co-author Mandayam Srinivasan, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a statement. "It was as if the monkey had a 600-mile-long virtual arm." Nicolelis and his colleagues used "microwires" implanted in the brains of two monkeys to monitor electrical activity as the animals moved their arms and hands. As the monkeys moved, their brain waves were fed to a robotic arm, which in turn mimicked the animals' movement. In addition, the researchers were able to send the brain signals over the Internet to trigger movement in a robotic arm at another location.