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florenze Kerensky
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07-13-2006 17:00
With the aid of electrodes implanted in his brain, a man paralyzed from the neck down was able to perform certain everyday activities - move a computer cursor, open e-mail, turn on a TV set - merely by imagining them.
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Desmond Shang
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07-13-2006 21:57
From: florenze Kerensky
With the aid of electrodes implanted in his brain, a man paralyzed from the neck down was able to perform certain everyday activities - move a computer cursor, open e-mail, turn on a TV set - merely by imagining them.


This has some incredible implications for SL. I wonder if you could hook up the same thing to a car, for instance...
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Mocc Spatula
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Totally OT...
07-14-2006 06:04
...but I feel someone simply has to make the painfully obvious crack about thinking this thread was going to cover an entirely different kind of implant.

Reminds me... I happened to bump into this awfully well-endowed young lady in the supermarket the other day. (You know the kind - looking like a stick insect shot through the back with two cruise missiles).

Well she was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?"

Damn near broke my feckin' jaw.
Rose Karuna
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07-14-2006 06:49
This is fantastic! A very good friend that I worked with for years has a son who when he was 22 years old decided to hop on a friends motorcycle and take it on a test drive around the block. Because he was just going around the block he did not put a helmet on and even if he had, I don’t know that it would have mattered with the kind of crash he had. He became a quadriplegic in an instant.

One of the things that he said was “if I could just move ONE HAND! It would make such a difference!” My hope is that technology like this will find it’s way to him someday. I hear from his Dad periodically and his Dad says he has a strong spirit and has married a wonderful woman. This sort of thing could make such a difference in his life.

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Billybob Goodliffe
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07-14-2006 06:52
this gives "the clapper" a whole new meaning :D

Now before any of you gutter brains goes there I am refering to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper
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Richie Waves
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07-14-2006 08:09
This will definitly have its uses in the sex industry!
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