Tourette’s! It’s hilarious isn’t it? Electric Spectre have it and love it, but for those of you who don’t find screaming ‘Guntmuncher’ at a 64 yar old lady in church refreshing, science can help! According to the BMC science journal, magnetic imaging of sufferers shows unusual behaviour in the frontostriatal lobes, meaning a drug can now be constructed to control these areas and cut out the potty-mouthing.
And of course, a drug that can be used to shut down or light up targeted areas of the frontal lobes would have NO OTHER USE WHATSOEVER, our overlord informs us.
LINK(Eurakalert)
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February 19, 2009 – 4:05 pm
After watching Scanners one too many times, I’m sure I’m not the only one who worries that the Government may well be trying to read my thoughts on a regular basis, but it seems such concerns may be ill-founded, because today saw US scientists finally crack mind reading! Yep, mind reading, apparently with 80% accuracy-terrified yet?
Fortunately no need for that tinfoil hat just yet, as the MRI scanner technology can (at the moment) only work out which shape you are thinking of. So, the most advanced mind-reading technology ever developed, and it’s just about ready to open a small comedy club.
Reports that the mark II model will also produce rabbits from hats remain unconfirmed.
LINK (telegraph)
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January 21, 2009 – 9:20 pm
See that thing at the top of the page? Well thanks to the magic of science brain tumour patients will soon be able to experience the thrill of having something like that burrowing through their brains! In nature, female wood wasps have a serated ovipositor that they use to plant eggs deep inside trees, causing bother for honey-seeking bears everywhere. This idea has now been married to robotics by scientists at imperial college London. Team member Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena claims:
“It can insinuate itself into the tissue with the minimum amount of force,”
Insinuate. Into the tissue. Great use of language to sell the thing there Fernando! Still, even an insectophobe like me recognises this is better than a tumour, and I cant wait for somebody to weaponize this fucker.
LINK (New Scientist)
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December 12, 2008 – 5:09 pm
Your thoughts are no longer your own. Japanese scientists have created a device that can decipher the images in your own mind.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people’s minds.
“It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity,” the private institute said in a statement.
So we may be able to watch people’s dreams…This is somewhat disturbing. Imagine an industry devoted to feeding people weird and scary images (and cheese) before collecting their dream-juice to sell on as entertainment… Doomed future, people!
LINK (Yahoo News)
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