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12/02/2003: :: Technologica

MIT, Bringing Us One Step Closer to having a Chip in Our Brains
from AP by way of CBS

(AP) When Richard W. DeVaul sits down to his computer, he sometimes forgets to eat for hours at a time. Names slip his mind at cocktail parties and, to his embarrassment, he mixes up the faces of people he knows well.

A string on the finger might have been a solution in the past, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student is testing a more modern lifeline for people who fumble for names, leave the stove on, or forget to call Mom on her birthday.

DeVaul's "memory glasses" are a tiny computer display clipped onto eyeglass frames and wired to a lightweight computer that can flash reminders to the wearer, without, he hopes, distraction or interference with day-to-day activities.


Tuesday the 2nd of December, prof noted:


I want to beta test this shiznit


Tuesday the 2nd of December, awiggins noted:


He is just over at MIT. Give him a ring.