From ExtremeTech:
Pinpoint fixing of trouble zones in your brain just got real. Enter the new Visuolase fiber-optic laser: 15 Watts of liquid-cooled, catheterized laser persuasion. When mated to a ROSA medical robot, this device makes the brain-fixer mech from Ender's Game look downright primitive. Even the most stubborn neurons will be conformed. It's not just the laser that makes this new medical virtuosity the experience of a lifetime, it's the unreal, futuristic technology pipeline that now awaits. From the salubrious gauntlet we will detail below, even the most humble plebs who aspire to any of the device trials now in full swing can make of themselves a medical celebrity.
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(Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 12 2014, @09:56AM
Keep yer fricking laser beams away from mah brane!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MrGuy on Thursday June 12 2014, @11:35AM
is friggin robots with friggin laser beams on their heads!
(Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Thursday June 12 2014, @11:58AM
This is a large, chilling step closer to the Orbital Mind Control Lasers [everything2.com]. :-)
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by LoRdTAW on Thursday June 12 2014, @01:49PM
And all this time I thought the sharks had laser weapons to destroy us. I was wrong. It's much, much worse.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday June 13 2014, @09:09AM
I for one... fuck that. Anyone posted a spaceship on thingieverse yet, so I can get the fuck off this planet with Natalie Portman and some powdered grits?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 12 2014, @03:57PM
They're talking about mitigating the propagation of the signal storms that cause epilepsy. They are not talking about getting you to like Coke vs. Pepsi. So maybe can we dial it back a bit?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by caseih on Thursday June 12 2014, @05:50PM
If the summary is any indication of the quality of article, the author at ExtremeTech has written the most bizarre and ridiculous blurb I've read in a long time. "Even the most stubborn neurons will be conformed. It's not just the laser that makes this new medical virtuosity the experience of a lifetime, it's the unreal, futuristic technology pipeline that now awaits." Umm, yeah. Really? Does the author even know what he's writing about? I know they feel like they have to sex up science to make it interesting to common folk, but this is over the top.
I'm not knocking the submitter here, but surely we can do better than link to stuff like this.
(Score: 1) by Hawkwind on Thursday June 12 2014, @11:38PM
I'd add a joke here but I suspect I'd be modded offtopic.
(Score: 1) by hendrikboom on Thursday June 12 2014, @06:19PM
Now if we only knew which neurons to zap!
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday June 13 2014, @02:45AM
...with a hammer, a lot less expensively, and probably rather more reliably.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by Sorcerer88 on Thursday June 19 2014, @08:16PM
The paper linked in the submission is about treating brain leasion patients by inserting a laser ablation catheter using a robot.
This is a medical technology advance in a small, specialized field. Everything else is childishly worded hyperbole.