Mind Out of Body From: Scientific American - 01/18/2011 By: Miguel A. L. Nicolelis In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, a pioneering neuroscientist argues that brain-wave control of machines will allow the paralyzed to walk and portends a future of mind melds and thought downloads Signals channeled directly from the brain can already control computers and other machines. Exoskeletons, full-body prosthetics, will ultimately connect directly to the brain as well. Brain-wave control of external prosthetics and computers portends an Age of Machines in which we transfer thoughts as if they were mental telegrams. Read the entire article at: http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v304/n2/full/scientificamerican0211-80.html