Wake up and taste the future

In two of the books Ive reviewed lately (Old Mans War, and The Ghost Brigades) soldiers in the future are equiped with supercomputers wired directly into their brains giving them superhuman senses. Well it seems that the future is closer then you think.

CNN has posted this article which unveils a technology which routes sensor information through the tongue and into the brain. Apparently the tongue is a superconductor of information to the brain which allows for easy translation of the data into human thought. People can have sonar or 360 vision. Personally I think this is an amazing possibility and hope to see this be widespread in my lifetime.