brain implant

Obstacles must be overcome, though, before brain implants become practical.

See brain implants in fiction and philosophy for a review of this literature.

A third Menel raised one of the electronic brain implants.

Because of their use physicians are less worried that brain implants will cause infections or strokes.

Gibson's work led to an explosion in popular culture references to brain implants.

Other brain implants are used in animal experiments simply to record brain activity for scientific reasons.

Small physical changes: enhanced sensory organs, brain implants allowing direct access to nearby computer systems.

Some brain implants involve creating interfaces between neural systems and computer chips.

In vision science, direct brain implants have been used to treat non-congenital (acquired) blindness.

Researchers are also studying the possibility of brain implants or nerve regeneration as future remedies for hearing loss.

But brain implants are quite invasive, the implants might not be in the correct position, and there is a risk they could cause damage themselves.

This video shows what brain implants currently allow:

Popular science fiction discussing brain implants and mind control became widespread in the 20th century, often with a dystopian outlook.

Lastly, surgical operations dealing with brain implants are extremely high-risk for patients, so the research needs to be further improved.

Image-Guided Surgery is used to precisely position brain implants.

Prosthetic limbs function through brain implants, too, but they also only work one way, receiving signals and interpreting them into physical actions.

It is set in a near-future society in which brain implants allow immersive virtual reality.

With the complexity of the brain, the possibilities for these brain implants to expand their usefulness are nearly endless.

Current brain implants are made from a variety of materials such as tungsten, silicon, platinum-iridium, or even stainless steel.

Future applications (still in the experimental phase) are retinal implants or brain implants.

Cybernetic brain implants enable humans to fuse their minds with AI's.

In 2006, The Independent ran a story that the "Pentagon develops brain implants to turn sharks into military spies".

I tend to skip jargon-filled descriptions of hackers doing their thing with keyboards or computer-linked brain implants.

It follows a computer hacker through a world where mercenaries are augmented with brain implants to enhance strength, vision, memory, etc.

Leon was a young man who, having died in a rigged car accident, was surgically resurrected with artificial brain implants.