Neurotronics.org

I just ordered the OCZ nia. I’ve read/watched mixed reviews on the web. However, I’m thinking that most of the negativity is due to impatience and the desire to use it as a direct replacement for a mouse and keyboard.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826100006&Tpk=ocz%20nia

NeuroSky is the worldwide leader in providing solutions to effectively interface bio-signal information, including brainwaves, to consumer electronic products. Our innovative clients and partners range from Fortune 100 companies to promising start-ups in both the consumer and industrial markets.

http://www.neurosky.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroSky

http://www.neuromodulation.com/index.html

The International Neuromodulation Society (INS) is a non-profit group of clinicians, scientists and engineers dedicated to the scientific development and awareness of neuromodulation – the alteration of nerve activity through the delivery of electrical stimulation or chemical agents to targeted sites of the body. Founded in 1989 and based in San Francisco, CA, the INS educates and promotes the field through meetings, its quarterly, peer-reviewed journal Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface and chapter websites.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3886862/Sex-chip-being-developed-by-scientists.html

Scientists are developing an electronic “sex chip” that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.

The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain.

The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson’s disease.

But in recent months scientists have been focusing on the area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex – this is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex.

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1107/video/watchonline.htm

Several video features on improving and repairing the human body.

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=389312&action=detail

Do normal humans actually possess the ability to have super powers? In Utah, see how a man can strap on an exoskeleton and lift hundreds of pounds with virtually no effort. In England, visit “Mr. Cyborg,” a man with the ability to control machines with merely a thought. In California, see a man glide through the sky like Superman, then it’s off to Atlanta, Georgia to see how engineers have found a way to help people glide through the water like Aquaman. Learn how scientists at the University of Texas are building artificial muscles that are 400 times stronger than our own, and in Las Vegas, strap on velocity motion stilts for a little bionic high jumping and high speed running.

A new imaging technique reveals previously hidden brain structures, including the central hub.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21042/page1/

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_will_change_computing.html

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=why-migraines-strike

Positron-emission tomography has revealed that three clusters of cells, or nuclei, in thebrain stem—the locus coeruleus, raphe nucleus and periaqueductal gray—are active during and after migraine. According to this hypothesis, abnormal activity in those nuclei could induce pain in two ways. The nuclei normally inhibit trigeminal neurons within the trigeminal nucleus, continuously saying, in effect, “don’t fire.” The nuclei’s misbehavior could impair this ability and thus allow the trigeminal neurons to fire even when the meninges send no pain signals. In that situation, the trigeminal nucleus would relay pain messages to the sensory cortex in the absence of incoming pain signals from the meninges or blood vessels. The three nuclei might also trigger spreading depression.