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An FM device in the cortex of the brain, the motor cortex, will send signals in real time to the motor points in the relevant muscles so that the person will be able to move their arm, let's say, in real time, if they've lost control of their arm.

A radio device is controlling every step I take, and a sensor picks up my foot for me every time I walk.

It's an electronic device.

So, all we would need to do is to fit a small microchip to every potential illumination device.

Instead, when you speak, you're actually using a form of telemetry not so different from the remote control device for your television.

It's just that, whereas that device relies on pulses of infrared light, your language relies on pulses, discrete pulses, of sound.

And just as you use the remote control device to alter the internal settings of your television to suit your mood, you use your language to alter the settings inside someone else's brain to suit your interests.

But what's interesting to me is that this was the first case of a mechanical device suffering, at least indirectly, from a human disease.

So this particular device is called the Gut Listener.

And so since we use devices to figure out how to relate to the world these days, I actually made a device called the Glacier Embracing Suit.

So beyond that, in closing, I'd just like to say that we're in this era of communications and device proliferation, and it's really tremendous and exciting and sexy, but I think what's really important is thinking about how we can simultaneously maintain a sense of wonder and a sense of criticality about the tools that we use and the ways in which we relate to the world.

[Daniel Engber on the Progress Bar] The progress bar is just an indicator on a computer that something's happening inside the device.

So today, I would like to talk with you about bionics, which is the popular term for the science of replacing part of a living organism with a mechatronic device, or a robot.

You see him with his original device on the left there after eight months of use, and on the right, it is two months.

TK: So we're really excited, because now we're getting to a clinically practical device.

And he comes up with this incredibly complicated device.

Here was an army that had just had experience in the First World War, where millions of men fought each other in the trenches, getting nowhere, making no progress, and here someone had come up with a device that allowed them to fly up in the skies high above enemy territory and destroy whatever they wanted with pinpoint accuracy.

And there were people, strategists, within the U.S. military who genuinely thought that this single device was going to spell the difference between defeat and victory when it came to the battle against the Nazis and against the Japanese.

And for Norden as well, this device had incredible moral importance, because Norden was a committed Christian.

And they make every one of those bombardiers take an oath, to swear that if they're ever captured, they will not divulge a single detail of this particular device to the enemy, because it's imperative the enemy not get their hands on this absolutely essential piece of technology.

And there's a little incendiary device inside of it, so that, if the plane ever crashes, it will be destroyed and there's no way the enemy can ever get their hands on it.

And that is, on August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay flew over Japan and, using a Norden bombsight, dropped a very large thermonuclear device on the city of Hiroshima.

This device would automatically send the intended person the letter as an email.

In a hospital, this device could be used to carry around medical equipment.

Because in its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

And they remembered a man, one amazing German, every time a new storytelling device popped up next.

And I thought it might serve as a kind of permanent mnemonic device.

This is the only device he needs in this treatment.

It's the development of a prosthetic device for treating blindness.

So what I'm going to tell you about today is a device that we've been working on that I think has the potential to make a difference, to be much more effective, and what I wanted to do is show you how it works.

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