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What a miracle, what a joy.
Holy Cow, that cap has more hair than I do!!!!
This article immediately made me think of the movie Firefox, starring Clint Eastwood released in 1982. I recall that was a fictional story about an advanced Russian jet fighter capable of traveling at Mach 5 with advanced armament controls that responded to thought commands from the pilot.
Surely, the military already has something in the works using this technology for a "deadly serious" games controller.
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Combine it with this and the Matrix will be almost here!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593034/posts
The computer science department I attend has a couple researchers doing similar work. I volunteered to provide data for them once. They were just matching various thought patterns to tasks at that point - had me mentally perform a set of different tasks in order. Things like mental arithmatic, mentally typing a letter, and mentally rotating shapes.
The most annoying thing was, as the article points out, the cap. It was itchy and did not want to stay on (I have very long thick hair). But the opportunities this could offer to paralyzed people is amazing.
Also, I wouldn't be suprised if brain research like this leads to an easy way to answer if someone's in a partial vegetative state or not (like the Terri Schiavo case).
I've often wondered how these guys got their start