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From: dnk@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Kinny)
Subject: Re: Cyborgs -- how to run a robot off your brain.
Message-ID: <9313111.26217@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
References: <wgu03B2w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 01:27:58 GMT
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baden@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Baden de Bari) writes:

>        Just out of curiosity, what would happen if the subject were to 
>flex a muscle, but not actually move a limb?  Also, a friend of mine did 
>some research with cursor control dependant of eye movement.  It was 
>quite a simple task, actually, however I did notice that the (both) 
>cursors' movements were very gittery.  This would be because of the way 
>the eye 'moves'; however, I was wondering if this was experianced in the 
>other muscles of the body as well?

Well it's hard to flex the muscle w/o some movement, why don't we make
some clevor sensor that detects the movement of a small muscle, say in
a finger, and encodes it as a symbol.  Add some hysteresis to remove
jitter ...  Hey, we could have lots of sensors in an array, each with a
unique encoding  ...   Funny, it sounds vaguely familiar.
