MAME Encoder for the Brain?

[Jabba]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1448140,00.html

Anyone up to the challenge of getting this to work with MAME? Cmon brain, left, damnit, I said left!

I especially liked the part where they say

"Nagle was given a general anaesthetic before a disc the size of a poker chip was cut from his skull. After making an incision in the brain's protective membrane, a tiny array of 96 hair-thin electrodes, each protruding about a millimetre, was pressed onto the surface of his brain, just above a region of the sensory motor cortex that is home to the neuronal circuitry governing arm and hand movement..."

And this...

"Since having the electrodes implanted in June last year, Nagle has been test-driving the technology, seeing what he, and it, are capable of. "We're evaluating his ability to do a whole range of things. We've hooked him to a computer that lets him turn a TV on and off, change channel and turn the volume up and down," says Donoghue."

[DarkKobold]

Ergh, no, you don't want this surgery.
 
The Utah array they are implanting only lasts for 6 months to a year before a protein layer forms over the probe, making them useless.

Cyberkinetics is making so much hot air in the news these days. He needs to have an array of computers to process the information.

By the way, the whole thing cost 6 million in venture capital. Nagle is the first 6 million dollar man. Pretty funny if you ask me.

I just got back from a Neural Engineering conference in Virginia. It is surprising how far we are from where these articles make it seem.

but we've got monkeys who have so far survived for nearly five years with implants and they are fine," says Nicolelis

Ugh, but they don't record for that long.

[ChadTower]

We have porn stars with implants that have survived much longer than that.