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Fish
04-03-2007, 05:49 PM
As it turns out, Not only are humans capable of mixing the signals from two senses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia), but based on a recent Wired.com article, it would seem that humans are also capable of adapting to entirely new senses (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html).

Flawless sense of direction? Infrared seeing? Perhaps even being able to see scent floating in the air - it all seems a little more possible. But as the article puts it, it's more a matter of figuring out how to hook up new sensory information to old senses.

7i8_Dago
05-26-2009, 07:21 PM
http://media.funlol.com/content/img/cool_story_bro.jpg

constantinople
05-26-2009, 07:23 PM
As it turns out, Not only are humans capable of mixing the signals from two senses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia), but based on a recent Wired.com article, it would seem that humans are also capable of adapting to entirely new senses (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html).

Flawless sense of direction? Infrared seeing? Perhaps even being able to see scent floating in the air - it all seems a little more possible. But as the article puts it, it's more a matter of figuring out how to hook up new sensory information to old senses.

http://media.funlol.com/content/img/cool_story_bro.jpg

That IS a cool story.

0x29A
05-26-2009, 07:24 PM
This is old stuff. DARPA has built some crazy shit.. one thing I heard is a sonar module that attaches to the tongue and sends it electrical signals, so the person wearing it is able to echolocate like a bat.

reallystupidstuff
05-26-2009, 07:32 PM
bumping old threads by fish is the new black

7i8_Dago
05-26-2009, 07:35 PM
bumping old threads by fish is the new black

HELL YEAH! :)

7i8_Dago
05-26-2009, 07:35 PM
bumping old threads by fish is the new black

* Dago has thanked your post *

if only :(