Dr Douglas-Hamilton's collars, however, simply record their data inmemory chips until those chips are prompted to regurgitate their contents to a receiver on board an aircraft that flies over the study area once every few months.
Berger said they record a memory being made, in an undamaged area of the brain, then use that data to predict what a damaged area "downstream" should be doing.
When Ripken recalls winning his first such award in 1991, his memory comes in the context of feeling snubbed in an earlier season when he set an assists record for shortstops.