Now that is pretty dang cool.

.......resistance is futile

So no more phones in 20-30 years?

Wait for Nokia 20000 BrainConnect!!! Samsung DirectNerveInput, and a special edition Iphone 4Brainless!!!

just what we need...a BORG collective....

So how long until I can vicariously learn kung-fu? Will digital narcotics still be illegal?

I can think of alot of uses for telepathic rats

Maybe not so much 'Borg' as 'Ghost in the Shell'. I for one welcome this development.
The very idea that one could adapt to an external interface and possibly through training learn to convey and accept information from an external interface is exciting.
Our brains are capable of processing vast amounts of information. I'm sure almost everyone has had a dream experience that felt hours long only to realize upon waking that only minutes had passed.
And for a lot of people there can be frustration in trying to convey a concept or relay large amounts of information/experiences, but being limited by how fast they can type or speak, especially when there is a language barrier.

I welcome discoveries like this one as well. It is a little scary, but it beats the Hell out of computers just continuing to evolve independantly from organic life. I'm a believer in the whole 'singularity' thing;once there are systems (mechanical or biological) that are more intelligent than we are, we can no longer make acurate predictions about the future (no more than a chiimpanzee could have seen the space shuttle coming) or do anything that we're not 'permitted' to do. That would leave us at the hopefully-merciful hands (manipulators?) of our mechanical children, who might be benevolent, malicious, or something else entirely that we can't even conceive of. And as the genie is already out of the bottle, much like nuclear weapons or nanotechnology, it's not going to be forced back inside. Not for long at any rate. To me it seems like a much better idea to merge and blend with our technology before it overtakes us, and form a symbiotic relationship rather than a potentially adversarial one. Crazy talk? Maybe, but this is the best outcome that I can see.

Link up with your exo-skeleton or remote control your robot "double" for hazardous search and rescue