Picking Wolpe's Brain

The field of neuroethics is getting hotter and hotter. Trying to determine what ethical issues will emerge from a host of new brain technologies -- psychopharmaceuticals, implantable brain technologies, brain imaging -- will pose the same kinds of challenges as genetics has over the last decade. In an article in Technology Review called "Picking Your Brain," Paul Root Wolpe discusses some of the thornier issues in brain-computer interfaces.

Brain-activated Computer...Here

USA Today profiles the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehab conference presentation of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems' new device trial. The patient / subject in the trial is able to control a computer through more than 100 sensors implanted in his brain, enabling him to open email, control a television and play Pong "with 70% accuracy." Cyberkinetics, along with Neural Signals and other small companies growing with money from DARPA and investors, is moving along a path that many describe as "suddenly explosive."