The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, so it should come as no surprise that the way to anyone’s brain is through the tongue. The military is interested in a device known as a Brain Port: a strip of 144 electrodes that can send information through nerves in the tongue to the brain. One user described the sensation to Pop Rocks.
But its not all about the military:
In testing, blind people found doorways, noticed people walking in front of them and caught balls. A version of the device, expected to be commercially marketed soon, has restored balance to those whose vestibular systems in the inner ear were destroyed by antibiotics.
I’m thinking its an even better man/machine interface than the desktop metaphor, keyboard and mouse.
