It amazes me. It's one thing to know that within my lifetime portable music contraptions became possible, all the way down to tiny Mac nanos, or that I've seen phones go from dial to cellular -- but something like this? Far, far, more wonderful, really.
First I looked at the url and went, what the hell is washington post doing reporting anything that has to do with FMA? Then I read the article. XD Pretty awesome, yeah.
I just put "FmA" in there because it's the most recent cybertech/biotech science fiction (of a sort) work I've read, and yet already we may have made it a reality, in some ways. Amazing.
Yeah, especially the fact that I'd never thought about how they'd do it, yet it makes sense: she just thinks about moving her arm, and that -- in turn -- tenses the muscles in her chest that once would've been an unconscious part of movement, and tadah, the arm moves.
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Date: 15 Sep 2006 10:32 pm (UTC)I mean, it's simple, but yet... wow.
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Date: 18 Sep 2006 02:07 am (UTC)All those miles between us but our brains still seem to be linked.