Canon MP160 problem & error

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Having virtual ESP is now possible!

Ever thought of moving thing with just your thought? Sound like ESP?

This would be a Sci-Fi, if I told you this story 10 years ago.
Now? It's possible too!

Just recently, Hitachi develops a head gear to read your brain activity & enable it to control other devices... and so you have it: Move the train with your brain

By HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 22, 3:01 PM ET


HATOYAMA, Japan - Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
The "brain-machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals.

A cap connects by optical fibers to a mapping device, which links, in turn, to a toy train set via a control computer and motor during one recent demonstration at Hitachi's Advanced Research Laboratory in Hatoyama, just outside Tokyo.

"Take a deep breath and relax," said Kei Utsugi, a researcher, while demonstrating the device.

At his prompting, a reporter did simple calculations in her head, and the train sprang forward — apparently indicating activity in the brain's frontal cortex, which handles problem solving.

Activating that region of the brain — by doing sums or singing a song — is what makes the train run, according to Utsugi. When one stops the calculations, the train stops, too.


Underlying Hitachi's brain-machine interface is a technology called optical topography, which sends a small amount of infrared light through the brain's surface to map out changes in blood flow.

Although brain-machine interface technology has traditionally focused on medical uses, makers like Hitachi and Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. have been racing to refine the technology for commercial application.

Hitachi's scientists are set to develop a brain TV remote controller letting users turn a TV on and off or switch channels by only thinking.

Honda, whose interface monitors the brain with an MRI machine like those used in hospitals, is keen to apply the interface to intelligent, next-generation automobiles.

The technology could one day replace remote controls and keyboards and perhaps help disabled people operate electric wheelchairs, beds or artificial limbs.

Initial uses would be helping people with paralyzing diseases communicate even after they have lost all control of their muscles.

Since 2005, Hitachi has sold a device based on optical topography that monitors brain activity in paralyzed patients so they can answer simple questions — for example, by doing mental calculations to indicate "yes" or thinking of nothing in particular to indicate "no."

"We are thinking of various kinds of applications," project leader Hideaki Koizumi said. "Locked-in patients can speak to other people by using this kind of brain machine interface."

A key advantage to Hitachi's technology is that sensors don't have to physically enter the brain. Earlier technologies developed by U.S. companies like Neural Signals Inc. required implanting a chip under the skull.

Still, major stumbling blocks remain.
Size is one issue, though Hitachi has developed a prototype compact headband and mapping machine that together weigh only about two pounds.

Another would be to tweak the interface to more accurately pick up on the correct signals while ignoring background brain activity.

Any brain-machine interface device for widespread use would be "a little further down the road," Koizumi said.

He added, however, that the technology is entertaining in itself and could easily be applied to toys.

"It's really fun to move a model train just by thinking," he said.

Imagine playing games, driving a car, flying a jet with just a thought... that would be great!

hmm... just wonder when can we start to cook a meal & wash all the dishes with just a thought!
( HaHa, for now, it's only in my dream! )

Even "after life" is possible!

I don't even want to believe this!

ITN - Friday, June 22 01:52 pm
If a punter can prove the existence of an afterlife to a bookmaker he stands to make £1 million in winnings.
Paranormal investigator Ross Hemsworth, 49, has been offered rather poor odds of 10,000/1, but his £100 bet will net him £1 million.
If successful, the self-titled "scientific investigator of anomalous phenomena" would become possibly the most famous man in modern history.

Mr Hemsworth from Glastonbury denies his scheme is crackpot and said a team of scientists and doctors are working around the clock to prove existence of the afterlife.
He said could not provide details of the evidence he is set to produce as it is being kept "under wraps".
The evidence must be provided and accepted by bookmakers William Hill before the end of the year or the business entrepreneur would lose his bet.

He said: "There is something out there trying to make contact.
"With the evidence we have got we are not a million miles away from proving it.
"The whole point of the project is to prove that there is something there.
"More and more people are coming away from religion, there are more and more wars.
"If we can prove this we hope it will make some difference to peoples' lives."

To me, personally, afterlife is better than no afterlife.
why?
Because it would make people think before they do anything onto others!
The karma thing... for every action there's a reaction!
[ you get a good afterlife if you do a lot of good this life;
you get a bad one if you do plenty of nasty things this life...
hmmm... so I guess that make us think: we must have done a good share of goods & bads in our last life, isn't it? :) ]
Now, with that would you dare to treat others badly, or kill/murder/bomb others?
If you do, you'll get that in return... plus the "interest" too!
Haha! Now that would be good wouldn't it? :p