Pentagon Developing Hard Drive For Your Brain

Posted by | March 21, 2015 09:00 | Filed under: Planet Pot Luck Top Stories

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The purpose is to improve the memories of troops who sustain brain injuries. But, certainly, the Pentagon wouldn’t use this for nefarious purposes.

DARPA’s previous program, Revolutionizing Prosthetics, implanted tiny electrodes into the brain of 55-year-old woman who was paralyzed.

The electrodes allowed her to control a prosthetic arm so that she could feed herself and operate a jet fighter simulator, noted SputnikNews.com.

This new implant project, Restoring Active Memory, would serve as a hard drive in the brain to help injured soldiers create and recall memories such as faces and names.

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11 responses to Pentagon Developing Hard Drive For Your Brain

  1. Anomaly 100 March 21st, 2015 at 09:07

    That’s kind of cool though. I have dain bramage from a mugging and suffered from memory loss. I’d love to have a backup drive.

    • William March 21st, 2015 at 09:31

      “suffered from memory loss. I’d love to have a backup drive”.
      I am sad to hear that.
      I actually have a backup drive for every single insensitive comment, I’ve ever made, every important event I’ve ever forgotten, and every chore I neglected.
      It’s the Lori/spouse 2000 hard drive. Non erasable, and no editing features. The memory can however be temporarily corrupted with liberal applications of chocolate, red wine and a good restaurant.

      • fahvel March 21st, 2015 at 09:37

        wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • Roctuna March 21st, 2015 at 11:20

        I have a 1974 analog version of the same system. The chocolate, wine and restaurants have the same effect though.

        • William March 21st, 2015 at 11:28

          Oh the Lori 2000 is actually a ’54 model with the vacuum tubes replaced with solid state components. It becomes completely unresponsive at times, usually preceded by the universal syntax error message of…
          “Whatever”

          • Roctuna March 21st, 2015 at 11:41

            Yeah, I was referring to the year she went against her better judgement and acquired me.

    • Suzanne McFly March 22nd, 2015 at 09:04

      I am with you, we already discussed our brain injuries and I know I would like to have my short term memory back.

  2. bpollen March 21st, 2015 at 16:36

    Keep a close eye on the MTBF specs… Hard drive failures could lead to “I Unremember Mama”

  3. Suzanne McFly March 22nd, 2015 at 09:03

    I am glad to see we have a medical success story that is not about erectile dysfunction.

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