http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/ Engadget Comments for Japanese researchers create images from thoughts using thoughts about images http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Someone gave it to me in a post from the last couple of days.]]>Dec 11th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/09/scea-confirms-that-playstation-home-launch-coming-this-month-in/
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U.S. Patent No. 3,951,134]]>Dec 12th 2008 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/@mvp: Japanese is Yoda?]]>Dec 12th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 12th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/
(don't think boobies, don't think boobies, don't think boobies, .... BOOBIES. Drat!)]]>Dec 11th 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/
Still, WOOT for dream playback in HD!
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all i see is adverts for Viagra, im only 17 but you can never get enough viagra]]>Dec 11th 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/
You'd be suprised to know that our brain's are actually digital.

No joke. Action potentials act in such away that if they do not meet a cetain threshold for membrane potential, they do not fire. There's no graded (analog) response. It's either all go (on/1) or all not at all (off/0).

Now this "digital" concept only holds its own in terms of neuronal machinary. The actual neuronal CIRCUITRY is none like any computer on earth. Think parallel process running in tandem millions of times over. It's quite impressive, actually.

So on one hand, yes our neurons do act in a digital manner, but on the other hand our exhibited behavior due to these digital inputs is quite far from robotic.

Interesting reads if you care to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Tolman - This guy has done AMAZING work to revolutionize the way we look at neurons.]]>Dec 11th 2008 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/
Firing vs. not firing is binary.

Firing *rates* are not binary.

There are surprisingly few circuits in the mammalian CNS or PNS which have been shown to encode meaningful information in single action potentials. In other words, it's all about the firing rate.]]>Dec 11th 2008 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3353504/Black-and-white-TV-generation-have-monochrome-dreams.html]]>Dec 11th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 12th 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/:(]]>Dec 11th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/]]>Dec 11th 2008 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 12th 2008 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 13th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/
What was science fiction in '83 is science fact 25 years later.]]>Dec 11th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/]]>Dec 11th 2008 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 11th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/japanese-researchers-create-images-from-thoughts-using-thoughts/Dec 12th 2008 1:12AM