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The Memory Hacker

Posted April 04, 2007 2:02 PM

From PopSci.com:

Ted Berger has spent the past decade engineering a brain implant that can re-create thoughts. The chip could remedy everything from Alzheimer's to absent-mindedness—and reduce memory loss to nothing more than a computer glitch. In wet lab 412C on the University of Southern California's Los Angeles campus, Vijay Srinivasan is poking a long, evil-looking needle at a slice of rat brain about half the size of a fingernail. All around him, coils of cable are piled near hulking microscopes. Glass vials and fluid-filled plastic dishes compete for space with spare keyboards and computer chips. The place looks more like a computer-repair shop than a world-class laboratory.

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04/04/2007 11:48 PM

He says: "I don't need a grand theory of the mind to fix what is essentially a signal-processing problem". Wow, this sounds better that drugs. Nothing can go wrong -Nothing can go wrong - Nothing can go wrong - Nothing can go wrong - Nothing can go wrong... er uh

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