Cell Hacking

Occasionally Popular Science magazine is really on top of a new phenomenon. This is one such moment. In their lengthy piece on the programming of bacteria, the mag covers virtually every issue associated with the creation of cell colonies from industrial-level programming - a highly controversial DARPA-funded program that is coming into its own. Magnus is quoted.

Brain-activated Computer...Here

USA Today profiles the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehab conference presentation of Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems' new device trial. The patient / subject in the trial is able to control a computer through more than 100 sensors implanted in his brain, enabling him to open email, control a television and play Pong "with 70% accuracy." Cyberkinetics, along with Neural Signals and other small companies growing with money from DARPA and investors, is moving along a path that many describe as "suddenly explosive."