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Ask Hackaday: What are Your Less Extreme Brain Hacks?

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Kahn — perhaps Star Trek’s best-hated villain — said: “Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity, but improve man and you gain a thousandfold.” In fact, a lot of hacking effort goes into doing just that. Your phone has become an extension of your memory, for example. We use glasses, cameras, and hearing aids to shore up failing senses or even give us better senses than normal. But hacking your body — or someone else’s — has always been controversial. While putting an RFID chip in your finger is one thing, would you consider having a part of …read more

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Can Scientists ‘Upload Knowledge’ Directly into your Brain to Teach New Skills?

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Imagine the world where you do not have to make any efforts to learn new skills or knowledge.

Just like new programs are uploaded to a Robot to teach them new skills, What if new skills are uploaded to your brain to make you learn, say, playing Guit… Continue reading Can Scientists ‘Upload Knowledge’ Directly into your Brain to Teach New Skills?→