Watching movies about Spider-Man or Batman as a child, did you want to become a superhero? Gaining superhuman capabilities after a spider bite is unlikely to work, but creating a suit that will make you much stronger and more agile than ordinary people is quite possible. A group of scientists from the United States and Japan seem to be developing one component of such a suit. A small sticker created by them can teach a person to instantly and accurately shoot at objects moving at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. How can you increase a person's response so much?
According to scientists, the average response time of a healthy person is about 250 milliseconds, that is, a quarter of a second. It may seem to some people that this is a fairly short period of time, and the human reaction can only be envied. However, things are not as good as they seem. Due to the fact that the brain spends about 200 milliseconds to recognize an object and 50 milliseconds to perform an action, a person sometimes cannot quickly catch a falling pencil, and certainly cannot hit a flying baseball with one shot.
How can you improve your reaction?
To shorten the reaction time and make the execution of actions instantaneous, you can use a camera and a small device that delivers an electric shock to the hand to contract muscles. The essence of the technology is that a special camera recognizes a rapidly moving object faster than a human brain and instantly sends an electrical impulse to the muscles to perform an action. To prevent people from feeling that someone was controlling them, the system had to be slightly slowed down - the reaction speed increases only by 50 milliseconds, which were previously spent on the action itself.
Using a combination of a camera and a device for supplying an electric discharge, the person participating in the experiment was able to film a baseball flying out of a cannon. Subsequently, he was able to accurately hit him by firing a ball from a toy pistol. This is truly an amazing result when you consider that the speed of the baseball exceeds 100 kilometers per hour.
Everything looks very cool, but the device for accelerating human reaction is not yet ready for sale. Developers need to fix at least one problem - if a person, for example, changes his mind at the last minute to shoot at an object, he will still take a shot due to an instant electric discharge. In addition, if the object recognition system makes a mistake and a person enters the field of view of the camera, he may well be killed.
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This technology can be especially in demand in the military sphere for the creation of soldiers with superhuman reactions. Also, she, and other similar technologies, can make life easier for people with disabilities, allowing them to interact with objects as quickly as healthy people.
Ramis Ganiev