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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'', a number of characters, including the Major, have ports implanted onto their bodies, typically at the back of the lower neck / upper shoulders that allow a direct connection between the brain and virtual reality. In the ''Stand Alone Complex'' series, we get a glimpse of what the internet looks like from within.
* Lain gets a direct neural interface in ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'': she plugs herself to her Navi by sticking electrodes on her body and plugging them into the USB ports.
* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has the ZERO System, which feeds data directly into the pilot's brain and reacts to his decisions practically at speed-of-thought. Unfortunately, if you don't have immaculate focus, it drives you crazy.
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* ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''. Infinidum Enterprise's Computer Terminals in the Hitchhiker's Guide buildings. There is a quote explaining how they're not a 'clunky typewrighter in front of a television set', but in fact a brain-computer interface thing.
* ''Call me Joe'' is about a disabled man who controls life forms on Jupiter using such an interface.
* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' has these on the bug fighters and other alien craft. Ax makes a comment about human computers being so primitive they don't have a decent psychic link.
* Required for [[Sapient Cetaceans|neo-fins]] to use tools in the ''[[Uplift]]'' series, usually linked to a harness with a robotic arm.
* A key plot point in Brain Jack, by Brian Falkner. Comes in the form of "Neuro Headsets".
* Such interfaces are noted in passing in ''[[AZones Fireof Upon the Deep (Literature)Thought|A Fire Upon the Deep]]''. They don't work very well below the High Beyond, but their users still don't like taking them off.
* Most humans are fitted with a neural implant at birth in ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'', which is used to translate thoughts into wireless signals. Mainly used for identification and appliance control. Some people voluntarily (and some not so voluntarily) undergo implantation of additional implants that, effectively, turn them into [[The Cracker|hackers]] that don't need a computer. They can even access a person's neural implant and fry his or her brain. Want to use a gun on them? Better use an ancient one that shoot bullets and has no electronics. Regular EM guns with computer chips inexplicably stop working when faced with a "cybreaker". Also used to enter virtual reality.
** There is also a colony of humans founded by those who have been subjects of genetic experimentation and have additional glands that emit and receive infrared signals that interface with any device that has an IR port (in this 'verse, nearly all computers have one). This is the biological version of a neural implant.
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* In ''[[Andromeda]]'', Seamus Harper had a dataport in the side of his neck, which allowed him to plug into, and interface with computer systems.
** Later on, he plugs a tesseract into the same port, which allows him to pass through solid objects.
* In ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', in a TV episode and expanded for the novelisation, the computer game "Better Than Life" works on this principle - terminally addictive total virtual reality
* [[Look Around You]] (series 1) parodies this with [[EB Es]], Electronic Brain Enhancements, chips that students can plug into their heads to help with their revision but which they can become addicted to.
 
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* R. Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk. Interface Plugs allow the person implanted with them to connect to and control cyberdecks.
* ''Alternity'' has an implant that allows a character to interact with compatible technology.
* Present in ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]''. Enhanced Imaging and the Direct Neural Interface are implants which basically allows the pilot to directly control the [[Humongous Mecha|BattleMech]] with their mind, rather than with the standard joysticks and neuro-helmet. Protomechs all use this, as they're too small to fit a cockpit. The devices have a number of drawbacks, such as crippling withdraw and causing the pilot to go slowly insane.
 
== Video Games ==
* [[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]] mentions an occipital <ref>bone in the back of the skull</ref> jack in one in game news article and an in game email, based on the context of the news article (The fact that a teenage girl has one is mentioned alongside having a tattoo and wearing black) these are looked upon negatively
* Pretty much the entire point of the [[Half Life]] 2 mod Dystopia. The players can jack into a 3D interpretation of a computer by mentally connecting to the computer through the cyberdeck in their heads. Of course, since they are putting their own minds inside the machine, they leave their real bodies vulnerable to attack.
* In [[Eve Online]], players fly their ships by being inside a pod full of goo with a neural interface which connects to the ship's systems and can easily be transferred between ships as well as ejected in the case of the ship's destruction (and if it is destroyed, a neural scan allows the player's mind to be transferred to a clone maintained at a station to cheat death). The interface allows a single person to control all of the ship's systems on any ship from a shuttle to a 20km long titan, with much faster reactions and better control than a human crew manually controlling it could have (NPC ships are controlled by crews, and with the exception of CONCORD, are relatively weak).
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== Web Comics ==
* From ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]'', The Throne of Faustus Heterodyne. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071005 It can] be [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071008 reasonably described] as [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071029 creepy.]
* ''[[Terinu]]'' has the old "port in the head" method of cybernetic interface, but it's limited to expensive and specialized "Cybergliders" who run the risk of eventual brain damage even before you add in encountering hostile ICE. Everyone else sticks to either voice commands or keyboards.
* Kimiko Ross from ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' has a jack in her upper back.
* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' shows us that [http://www.xkcd.com/644/ some people] are not going to wait for these interfaces to go mainstream.
* Bedivere in the Space Arc of ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' has an I/O jack replacing <s>her</s> his [[Artificial Limbs|missing hand]]. [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1065.htm Largely for the sake of a pun].
* In ''[[Twenty First21st Century Fox (Webcomicwebcomic)|Twenty First Century Fox]]'' most personal computers are VR glasses that seem to respond to a combination of brain signals and voice control, offering a full sensory experience. The same technology is later used for "o-Pods" that act as a virtual reality version of the iPod.
* In ''[[Umlaut House]] 2'' most people have "Eye-fis".
 
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Megas XLR]]'', Coop meets a future version of himself, and their future Kiva is hooked up to a machine through her brain.
* In ''[[Exo Squad (Animation)|Exo Squad]]'', the [[Mini-Mecha|E-frame]] steering is twofold: the ground movement (walking) is synchronized with the pilot's leg movements, but aiming and flying are controlled via "cyberjacks" connecting directly to the pilot's brain via a socket at the back of his/her neck.
 
== Real Life ==
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