The Rebel Faction

The MindDrive

Developed as a means of electronic control without having to interact with the object needing control. All BDE systems are equiped to recieve these mental transmissions and indeed future systems are being developed with no outter control systems for astheticly pleasing work places. The MindDrive has been developed to differentiate between conscious and unconscious thought through use of high large-scale activity, high rate of neuron fire, versus small scale wide range thought process's of the uncounscious mind.

The MindDrive system is accomplished by multiple means.

First, an implant is placed in the brain's motor area. The implant is a hollow glass cone the size of a ballpoint pen's tip. Called a "neurotrophic electrode", it's inserted through a hole drilled in the skull, into the cerebral cortex just above the ear. The placement is crucial. A team of neurosurgical experts scan the patient's brain using magnetic-resonance imaging, a non-invasive technique which displays computer graphics images of patterns of blood flow. When the patient is asked to think about moving a limb, the motor area of the brain becomes active, and from its increased blood flow the precise location of the active region can be identified. This is where the electrode is implanted.

Inside the glass cone is a microscopically-thin gold wire, surrounded by nerve tissue extracted from the patient's leg, which stimulates neurons from the surrounding cortex to grow into the cell. Over a period of weeks, the neurons fuse with the wire (It's like having a little piece of brain inside the electrode). It receives its power from using the brains own small scale electrical synapse symbols. Any signal picked up from motor neuron activity is detected and amplified by a tiny receiver placed just under the skull.

The patient subsequently undergoes a training programme using biofeedback. The electrical activity recorded by the implant controls the sound of a buzzer, and the patient gradually learns which thoughts make the buzzer sound louder and faster. Later, the buzzer is replaced by a image on a screen, and the patient learns to "think" the image to do multiple tasks.