[sten]

ok... NOW can i put on the tinfoil hat??

[popdonnelly]

Just what the World needs, a mind-reading machine. Big Brother never had one of those.

[aruanan]

Sometime, over 15 years ago, researchers were able to record cats’ neural activity through their optic nerve and recreate what the cats were seeing.

[VRWCmember]

This is the team with the know-how to make it happen.

[Proud_texan]

Calling Johnny Mnemonic.

[weegee]

Why not also have the test subjects concentrate on something (like a memory about the family house growing up).

The level of detail in such a thought may not be as crisp as when a viewer is looking at letters on a screen.

This is something that must be accomplished before you can start to “watch” dreams.

[VRWCmember]

How hard can that really be?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Are they jpg files?

[VRWCmember]

Reverse engineering the technology:

[Kevmo]

cool technology ping

[ShadowAce]

[antiRepublicrat]

I wish it were in final form now so we could hook it up to Obama, then everybody would know he’s just your run-of-the-mill Chicago political thug.

[papasmurf]

I suppose this could lead to some controversial uses and adaptations and even further developed into something nefarious. It is possible.

But, still, I think it's awesome.

I may be whacked, but I do believe at some point we will be able to "download" images, and perhaps even data, from our brains, even the brains of the deceased.

As well, I see medical uses for this that render useless current methods of studying and diagnosing brain idiopathies , which is something that has touched my life.

[Larry Lucido]

I'll save them the trouble. Here.

[Shadowstrike]

I’ve been dreaming of this for years.