The Future:

Warriors of the future will 'taste' battlefield
Tuesday, April 25, 2006; Posted: 11:23 a.m. EDT (15:23 GMT)


PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) -- In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues.

By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish.

Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition envision their work giving Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allowing Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater -- turning sci-fi into reality.

The device, known as "Brain Port," was pioneered more than 30 years ago by Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist. Bach-y-Rita began routing images from a camera through electrodes taped to people's backs and later discovered the tongue was a superior transmitter.


MORE AT: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/04/24/tongue.sight.ap/index.html

Creepy!

What about blind people... or those who have lost ther site?? HMMMMM>?

wow interesting.

Didn't read the full article did you tim.

Yeah yeah... i studdied this last year for design funnily enough!!

This is just around the corner

Vanilla_Rice wrote:

This is just around the corner

actually they hav this already.. they have a seethrough eye piece and a camera on the gun, so they dont need to look down the site they can see where the gun is looking and they can shoot around corners by puting hte gun around them

i was reffering more to mind control and manipulation but yeah sweet as

thats just stupid.... we have that all ready.. its called being a grunt in the army