http://home.actlab.utexas.edu/~dbailey/pressrelease.html

Geez, 50000 dog brain cells can make a frag in Quake 3, think of what an etire human brain could do if interfaced into the game.

Sign me up.

Something about the misspellings in that article, and those videos...I dunno. This doesn't seem real to me.

If somehow this is real though, this is an incredible scientific achievement.

A similar project sourced by CNN:
Rat brain cells control Flight Sim.

If that actually is real, that is either incredibly awesome, or incredibly creepy hehe.

-TiM

Quote (Dr. Chaotica @ June 19 2006, 1:39 pm)

Something about the misspellings in that article, and those videos...I dunno. This doesn't seem real to me. If somehow this is real though, this is an incredible scientific achievement.

Not only that. Look at the date the paper was published on February 15, 2005. About 1 1/2 years ago.

Can this be extended to posting too?  I'd feel a lot better about Carver's posts if I knew they were being written by a jar of dog brain cells.

Do you think one jar is enough or do you want to add your jar to mine.

Quote (Dr. Chaotica @ June 19 2006, 12:39 pm)

Something about the misspellings in that article, and those videos...I dunno. This doesn't seem real to me. If somehow this is real though, this is an incredible scientific achievement.

i dont think any university would discredit its own internetsite with this sort of false info.
therefor i belive it is real.

Heheh, not real, but rat thing is. See at the bottom:

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(note: this is not a real press release, see sources)

Click that link, and it gets clear. The guy heard about the rat thing on CNN, got those guys' press release, edited it to fit his story, and dummied it up to look like a page from his school's site. It looks like its on his own web space within the university’s site, not any official publication of the school.

Neat.  I know they were doing experiments with monkeys and moving a mouse, but this is really nifty.