Scientists have given rats the ability to sense infrared light by means of a brain implant.
Scientists have created a "sixth sense" by creating a brain implant through which infrared light can be detected.Although the light could not be seen lab rats were able to detect it via electrodes in the part of the brain responsible for their sense of touch. ...
But the new study, by researchers from Duke University in North Carolina, is the first case in which such devices have been used to give an animal a completely new sense.
Dr Miguel Nicolelis said the advance, reported in the Nature Communications journal this week, was just a prelude to a major breakthrough on a "brain-to-brain interface" which will be announced in another paper next month.
More interesting to me than a brain-to-brain interface would be a brain-to-internet interface. I'd love to browse the web and send email with my brain.
