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This sounds aaaaawesome. ]]>Apr 25th 2006 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.saltypig.com/blog/emilio.jpg
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"Just don't chew it."]]>Apr 25th 2006 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/
To have sonic perseption and radar? I wonder what that would "feel" like.]]>Apr 25th 2006 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/;)
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This is pretty cool. The world's getting more Gibson-ized every moment. ]]>Apr 25th 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/Apr 25th 2006 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/
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Not just by a bit, but by a huge order of magatude.
Theres no way that system could ever even approach the human eye. (even in black and white).

I taste Hyperbole...

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So, your "visual" resolution is

(144 pins / ( degrees of "visual" field )


I would imagine that the degrees of visual field is a parameter that can be tweaked.

So, you could have high resolution image that centers on just a few degrees of your visual field, or a low resolution image that covers a wider range of your visual field. 360 degree vision? Sure, but you would have just under 2 pins per "visual" degree, assuming you have no Y axis ( but that's prolly uninterpretable by the user, given that there is a Y axis on the physical pin array).

I would imagine that variable resolution could be acheived with a zoom slider on the input device. The question is, how well can the humans adapt to this kind of potentially confusing variable input?

This brings us to the real bottleneck in the situation: human adaptability. Luckily, the cortical areas responsible for haptic and visual sensation have adapted to receive similar types of information. For instance, we can both SEE and FEEL within the spatial environment, which can mathematically be represnted using X,Y,Z coordinates. These can be mapped onto pins pretty easily. But, surely there are differences in how the haptic and visual systems have adapted their topological organization to best represent the input that they receive from the environment. It's these differences that are going to make it impossible to have a 1:1 translation between the visual input and the haptic receptors.]]>Apr 25th 2006 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/Apr 26th 2006 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/Apr 26th 2006 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/25/the-brain-port-neural-tongue-interface-of-the-future/
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