Wednesday, May 02, 2007

"Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' Brains":


...That prefrontal cortex, ...allows the brain to pick up patterns quickly, but it also exercises a powerful impulse control, inhibiting false alarms. EEG would essentially allow the binoculars to bypass this inhibitory reaction and signal the wearer to a potential threat. In other words, like Spiderman's "spider sense," a soldier could be alerted to danger that his or her brain had sensed, but not yet had time to process.