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A collaboration led by Johns Hopkins researchers will start human trials on their Modular Prosthetic Limb this year. Micro-arrays are implanted into the brain, allowing a user to operate the prosthetic -- which includes 22-degrees of motion, independent finger movement and weighs only 9 pounds -- with their thoughts alone.

Next-generation contact lenses, comprised of sensors, antennae, semiconductor circuits and LEDs, would display key visual data -- the view from a gun camera's scope, or even a text message -- right onto a user's eye.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Researchers at the University of Washington have already tested the lenses in rabbits, and in a presentation at an Institute for Defense and Government Advancement conference, they noted that they're working to boost pixel count and incorporate color.

In a war-zone, the lenses would have a second application: Additional sensors could monitor health metrics like blood glucose levels and heart rate.

Sure, troops might one day communicate telepathically. But they might also control drones, computers -- and weapons -- using a brain-computer interface instead of a button or a trigger.

Monkeys have been doing it for years. In a series of experiments funded by Darpa, Duke University neurologists implanted monkey brains with electrodes, then trained the simian cyborgs to feed themselves bananas from a robotic arm and direct a 200-pound “humanoid robot” walking on a treadmill.

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Researchers at the University of Washington have already tested the lenses in rabbits.