Harnessing the Power of the Brain
From: 60 Minutes - Aired 11/02/2008

Once in a while, we run across a science story that is hard to believe until
you see it. That's how we felt about this story when we first saw human
beings operating computers, writing e-mails, and driving wheelchairs with
nothing but their thoughts.  

Quietly in a number of laboratories, an astounding technology is developing
that directly connects the human brain to a computer. It's like a sudden leap
in human evolution - a leap that could one day help paralyzed people to walk
again and amputees to move bionic limbs. As correspondent Scott Pelley
reports, the connection has already been made for a few people, and for them
it has been life changing.  

Read the entire script and view the video at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/31/60minutes/main4560940.shtml

Article submitted by David Punia

Links:
We Have Been Blessed
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=9839

Brainwave reader liberates the mind (pdf file)
http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/NetCommunity/Document.Doc?id=198

Links submitted by Alisa Brownlee