The only new enemy that even made an impression was a giant elephant warrior whose brain plops out of its skull like a deflated beach ball when you kill it.
The medical device giant Medtronic is testing a related technique called deep-brain stimulation, in which electrodes from a device in the chest are surgically threaded several centimeters into the brain to the site of damage.
It wants to be the brain in your washing machine, your microwave and your car, not to mention the giant server farms dotted around the planet that will power cloud computing as more of our day-to-day work gets stored online.