Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas
* 01 March 2006
* From New Scientist Print Edition
* Susan Brown
IMAGINE getting inside the mind of a shark: swimming silently through
the ocean, sensing faint electrical fields, homing in on the trace of
a scent, and navigating through the featureless depths for hour after
hour.
We may soon be able to do just that via electrical probes in the
shark's brain. Engineers funded by the US military have created a
neural implant designed to enable a shark's brain signals to be
manipulated remotely, controlling the animal's movements, and perhaps
even decoding what it is feeling.
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