| 20 October 2009
In the summer of 2007, a team of Stanford graduate students threaded fiber-optic cable into the motor cortex of a mouse and reprogrammed to do their bidding. The implication here is that fiber-opitc cables could be a viable and precise way of sending signals to the brain and thus far show none of the side effect that are common with other brain stimulates like chemicals and electrodes.
Although the test thus far are only conducted on animals, follow up experiments at UC San Diego have shown that fiber opitc percision can effectively stimulate specific single neurons. This means that technically a helmet of optics minus that pesky skull of ours could literally simulate the specific neurons to recreate perception, like that of "The Matrix"For more information about this, check out the full article at Wired.com
