Posted by Bittersweet on March 13, 2003, at 4:09:13
In reply to Not an April Fool Joke - Artificial Hippocampus, posted by IsoM on March 12, 2003, at 20:23:19
that made me go "hmmm" :o)
The ethical side they speak of is very interesting; What if you couldn't forget something you wanted to?My short term memory seems to be suffering lately, but I'd rather have it this way than to be forced to remember stuff I'd rather not...
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> I figured it had to be an early April fool's joke but a bit more checking bears out its veracity. All I can say is - weird!
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> "World's first brain prosthesis revealed"
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993488
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> And the home page of the team leader that further verifies the story:
> http://www.usc.edu/dept/biomed/faculty/berger.html
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