Transcending Biology
| This open source software facilitates the ability to translate thoughts into digital commands using electroencephalography. |  |
| This robot is controlled by a rat brain. Spatial information from ultrasound sensors is fed to the brain which produces specific patterns of neuron activity. These patterns are translated into commands to control the robot. |  |
| This company allows you find out more about your DNA. For a few hundred dollars they will provide you with genotyping information that could allow you to understand more about risk factors or diseases you may have. |  |
| The BrainGate neural interface is a technology that allows people to control a computer with thought alone, after having a chip implanted in their brain. The system has been used by disabled people to greatly improve their quality of life. |  |
| This talk describes some of the existing or in development wireless technologies that could monitor our health and provide real time feedback to help us prevent diseases like diabetes before they become serious. Once medical information is processed automatically by computers it can be aggregated and used to discover things no doctor ever could. |  |
| A team of scientists has created the genome of a bacterium from scratch, implanted it into a cell and booted it up to create what many call the first man made life form. This also marks the first time that a life form has its own web site encoded in its DNA. |  |