From the dawn of electronics , people have been trying   to mix electronics with our consistency in decree to improve conditions that   currently have no cure and   to go beyond our limit . The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) is now quick to back that up with big bucks .

DARPA has declare it plans to expend $ 65 million to create a brain - information processing system interface , the core goal of theNeural Engineering System Design political program . The program will last for four age and will   fund six different research teams . These scientist will work on LEDs that can be used to restore visual sense , a organisation to understand speech , and a holographic microscope to notice neural activity .

While these are all part of an exciting program , it is important to commemorate just how challenging it is . Even if the engineering science developed is as successful as one might hope , it would take year to perform clinical psychometric test to undertake that the tech is safe and authentic . DARPA wants the team to make commercially executable applications , but there are many obstacles to overcome .

The cosmopolitan idea is to produce unlike versions of the same basic technology , an port that can interpret the electrochemical signals into electronic impulses and frailty versa . Only in such a personal manner would it be possible to control likely sensational devices .

The researcher will try   to make a brainiac implant that   is at most a cubic centimeter ( about two nickel stuck back to back ) in mass . The volume requirements are sensitive but not groundbreaking . Previousstudieshave shown implants that are minimally invasive .

The chip will have to be able to connect and commune with   up to a million neuron , and while that sounds impressive , we need to remember that the mean human has about86 billion of them .

Still , a applied science that can interface with our neural electrochemistry can have a huge wallop , even if it only interact with a ( relatively ) tiny fraction of nerve cell . The implant can facilitate bridge over nerve connection , which means it might help people that have lost limb function or have a spinal harm .

Obviously , this is other employment , but it is foretell that enquiry groups are pull to a tech that might make life sentence wanton for one thousand thousand of multitude .