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"We'd have most of what we predicted of the conquest of space, if we hadn't ignored parasite control."
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![]() This device provides a hands-free way to control other devices; in this case, a set of body modifications. In the novel, Gully Foyle seeks revenge on those who abandoned him in space; he has his entire body rewired for greater strength and speed.
I can't find this as an assistive device for people who are unable to use ordinary controllers (like people with high spinal injuries); I wonder if it is worth exploring. An interesting use of computers as an assistive device is found in this article Spinal Cord Injury and how to live with it. It describes a mouse-substitute that can be operated with lips and tongue alone. Left and right mouse clicks are done by sipping from or puffing into the "hollow joystick."
It would be handy for athletes; here's a bit more:
Foyle touched his tongue to the switchboard wired into the nerve endings of his teeth. He accelerated...
He backed a step and pressed his tongue against his upper incisors. Neural circuits buzzed and every sense and response in his body was accelerated by a factor of five.
William Gibson uses this with his razorgirl Molly in Neuromancer (1984):
She pressed her tongue hard against her lower front teeth. One moved slightly, activating her microchannel amps; the random bounce of photons through the darkness was converted to a pulse of electrons, the concrete around her coming up ghost-pale and grainy. `Okay, honey. Now we go out to play.'
Compare to the Ullran enunciator from Uller Uprising (1952) by H. Beam Piper and the tongue mouse from Quantico (2007) by Greg Bear. Comment/Join this discussion ( 7 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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