October 24, 2005

US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.

Scientists believe the implant will vastly improve the memory of troops so that they can recall every detail of their TRAINING and BECOME more effective fighters.
Researchers at the University of Southern CALIFORNIA's bio-engineering department have created the chip, which acts in exactly the same way as the hippocampus - the part of the BRAIN that deals with memory.

In experiments, the team removed that section of the brain of dead rats and inserted the chip in its place. The implant sent exactly the same electronic signals as the real thing.


The next stage of the project is to test the implant on live animals. If this work proves to be as successful, experiments could one day be carried out on soldiers.

I bet they don't use Windows. Where did you get this?!

[glb]Flame[/glb]http://www.news.com.auRobo-cop strikes again..........-non_.fiction to fact........
why not disable war all together as a civilised world fighting should be no more, and the cash from weapons, trading into food and well being.......

And anothergame for the kids a robot army.....?
wheris judge dread hidding......

I always thought the gw was a robot........and he sqeaks when he moves......Imagine a chipped soldier seeing a BSOD. Wow thats a good idea!

R0SSi don't think it would be handfull, there can be a chance you get hurt, a chip in your body
and later perhaps they will exist viruses for the chips, so they start to shoot there own guys, nice stategy yay! award for reviving a two year old dead topic, i know i'll get like flamed for this.. but i was wondering... is this still going on? like the whole memory chip scenario?

how do they know how much memory in TERMS of Gb/Tb whatever the brain has? how would they be able to match what they took out. if they make an implant with inferior storage capabilities, they've not only ruined a life but also decreased his usefulness...
once again i know i've revived a dead topic, but why make a new one of the same type when there's one already here...Not sure if you'll get a reply on this being that the article is almost a year and a half old. Doesn't appear that much has happened with this story as I don't recall hearing about any soldiers in Iraq with these chips.well yeah that's true, but technology like that can take years to develop. even if it was mentioned two years ago, it might not be finished for another 10 years. i still have doubts though. no matter what software or hardware people come up with, there's nothing to rival the brainpower of someone willing to learn.