Just finished the latest science feature for the Maroon. This one's about Nicho Hatsopoulos, a Greek statue of a man who works in what he calls "brain-machine interfacing" - essentially, using technology to let people communicate using only their brains. Useful? Sure, but especially for people missing arms and legs or paraplegics: it looks like someday we could be able to fit them with mechanical arms that are controlled with cues from their brain. Like Luke Skywalker's prosthetic hand in Empire Strikes Back, only better.
Read more about it here!.
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I guess Emily would get more of a kick out of this, but one of the Hebrew pieces we were singing in choir this semester had the lyrics 'tan solo', and one sleep deprived rehearsal I wrote underneath that 'han solo... hahaha' and proceeded to laugh every time I saw it after that.
ReplyDeleteSorry. That was random. But your Star Wars reference made me think about it and I felt like sharing. It actually is pretty cool the technological advances society's been making recently.