| Mental Mouse Neural Interface System | |
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Creator |
Douglas Fargo |
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Type |
Brain-to-Machine Interface |
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Intended Effect |
Displays and responds to the intensity of emotional states one experiences |
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Malfunction |
Entwines hazardous technology with subconscious beliefs, making devices pliant to unintentional whims |
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Location |
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Activation |
Signal wavelength and attachment to body |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Date of Incident |
Sep.12.2006 |
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Effects[]
Three years of R&D led to an interface system that could connect the cerebral cortex of the subject to a computer mainframe. Whatever command one thought, the installed programs would queue the task until completed or the user canceled. As it scanned with the entire processing power of the cerebellum, it also dredged up subconscious desires in the search history. Users would end up going down hyperlink rabbit holes they wouldn’t intentionally plan to visit. Normally some underlying facet of their personality they didn’t fully display in public, deep-set desires.
Each subject was also monitored for levels of emotional eustress brought on by chemical markers and electrical activity in the brain. The charts represented red as anger, blue for happiness, yellow for fear and green as depression. Multiple fields could be registered at once as spiking neural spindles. At times, the measured emotional responses will pump up one’s neurochemical levels further to provide finer implicit control beyond logical thoughts. To overload any excessive response, apply another conflicting state in equal measure. Concentrating on specific commands with the rational ego only are very difficult, as the reactionary brainstem and subconscious id are in greater control of the program.
Appearances[]
It appears in the Season 1 episode “Primal“. Acting as a Bluetooth system for the brain, Director Stark was outfitted with a transmitter node on the neck connected to the Eureka main computing system. His subliminally returned sites on power, fame and leadership as his desire for recognition fueled his studies.
Unfortunate coincidence that it interacted on the same frequency as the GD Repair Nanoids and duplicated his likeness into an obsessive legion. All intent on escaping the EM shield, leaving Eureka and spawning endlessly in fulfillment of both project’s programs to assume control by numbers. Willing all clones to return would not work, as logical thoughts were not strong influencers. Carter serenading Allison however created lots of jealousy and anger, redirecting all the copies to them for a beatdown with the sheriff. A low frequency sound blast disintegrated each version once they entered the same room.
Both items were neutralized, albeit their signals scrambled enough to have permanent entanglement between the two systems. Those damaged were removed from the system, and better versions assembled from the debacle.
