Friday, December 16, 2011

"If there was a lid upon my head..."

"...you could look inside and see what's on my mind."  The musician Dave Matthews wrote these words, and it turns out, his lid could come soon - if he wants it.  A new experiment has found lightly implanted electrodes placed on the surface of the brain can decode words from brain activity.
The Journal of Neural Engineering recently published an article concerning this very interesting technology.  What make soon be more necessary for direct thought-computer interfaces is a non-invasive method for gleaning such information from our minds without penetrating the skull.
Decoding brain activity may be more useful than advanced voice recognition technology one day, and also become very essential military and law enforcement tech.  Imagine communicating with other personnel in a squadron in the jungle without effort, and without making a sound.  Electric telepathy: a stealthy interface indeed.

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