] Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from ] testing a brain-computer interface created by ] Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro, ] Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate, ] could help patients with no mobility to control a ] computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired ] muscles, using only their thoughts. If the trials go ] well, a product could be on the market by 2007. ] ] "It looks a lot like the Matrix," Surgenor said, referring ] to the sockets in the backs of the movie characters' heads ] that allowed them to log into the Matrix grid. One step closer to the CyberPunk future envisioned by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling in the '80's. |