Mattnyc99 writes A month ago we discussed the realization when researchers got monkeys to feed themselves with a robotic arm abused substance by their brains. But after all the recent successful experiments with brain-computer interfaces, will the mechanics ever make it out of the lab and into hospitals — or even into our hands, for the closest thing imaginable to The Force? Popular wave mechanics takes a look at the future of mind-machine control, speculating on several theoretical applications once brains can adapt to devices via direct communication between, say, synapse and prosthetic. Quoting the field's leading neuroscientist: 'For the foreseeable future, the main benefit is for rehabilitation. But the delving is showing that the brain can act independently of the body. One day, you could be sitting in an office and executive a device from across the room — or in another building. And it's not just flicking a switch. It could be a nanotool that's moving through a tiny environment, and you can control it and see what it's seeing.'"

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