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Micheal Jackson Faces

Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst's bodies in formaldehyde, the frog is suspended in clear liquid contained in a glass cube, with a blue ethernet cable leading into its splayed abdomen. The computer stores a website that enables users to trigger physical movement in the corpse: the resulting movement can be seen in gallery, and through a live streaming webcamera.

Garnet Hertz - Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver

(ANSA) - Rome, May 30 - Italian doctors have built the world's first biotech vagina.

So far, two patients lacking vaginas because of a rare malformation have been helped to grow ones, using stem cells taken from their own bodies.

Nice... The italians should make gardens of them.

ANSA.it - News in English - Italians build biotech vagina

The journey to pack more (proverbial) internal storage into the human brain has been going on for years, but a recent development at Tel-Aviv University could actually bring us one step closer to storing rudimentary memories on a manmade device. Reportedly, a new experiment has shown that it is indeed possible to store said memories "in an artificial culture of live neurons," which is a fairly significant step towards the "cyborg-like integration of living material into memory chips." Essentially, Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob carefully examined the firing patterns of a sea of electrodes and found that they could "deliberately create additional firing patterns that coexist with the spontaneous patterns." These forced patterns could theoretically represent simple memories stored in the neuron network, and after giving it a go on their own, they were able to see "memory patterns" persist for over forty hours in a homegrown concoction.

'Living' cyborg chip stores rudimentary memories - Engadget

Genetically modified hens can produce drugs in the whites of their eggs, scientists reported today.

The technology "signifies an important advance in the use of farm animals for pharmaceutical production," the scientists said in a statement.

Nice. I can't wait to see illegal egg salesmen in dark alleyways.
this is your brain; this is your drugs

LiveScience.com - Freak Chickens Lay Eggs Loaded with Drugs

Photographs of what reporters claim was Michael Jackson wearing high heels, skinny jeans and a floppy woman’s sun hat were published yesterday. He was out with his 8 year-old daughter, Paris, who was dressed almost identically.

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WASHINGTON — The first time Claudia Mitchell peeled a banana one-handed, she cried. It was several months after she lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorcycle accident. She used her feet to hold the banana and peeled it with her right hand. She felt like a monkey.

“It was not a good day,” Mitchell, 26, recalled this week. “Although I accomplished the mission, emotionally it was something to be reckoned with.”

Now, Mitchell can peel a banana in a less simian posture. All she has to do is place her prosthetic left arm next to the banana and think about grabbing it. The mechanical hand closes around the fruit and she’s ready to peel.

Times of Oman

This is pretty funny.

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] Controlling objects with thought is becoming a reality.
] An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man
] to check e-mail and play computer games using his
] thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a
] time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested
] in humans so far

news @ nature.com - Paralysed man sends e-mail by thoughtbreaking science news headlines

One way is to interface it to a silicon chip.

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