Posted on 12/07/2004 5:52:55 PM PST by kupia_kummi
A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer.
Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.
Previous research has shown that monkeys can control a computer with electrodes implanted into their brain.
The New York team reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"The results show that people can learn to use scalp-recorded electroencephalogram rhythms to control rapid and accurate movement of a cursor in two directions," said Jonathan Wolpaw and Dennis McFarlane.
The research team, from New York State Department of Health and State University of New York in Albany, said the research was another step towards people controlling wheelchairs or other electronic devices by thought.
The four people faced a large video screen wearing a special cap which meant no surgery or implantation was needed.
A non-invasive brain control interface could support clinically useful operation of a robotic arm, a motorised wheelchair or a neuroprosthesis
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Very cool. Of course, they'll also be FReeping and playing Doom just like the rest of us slackers...
Do you keep your hair?
" A non-invasive brain control interface "
You can't fool me. This is a tin-foil-hat.
:^>
one step closer to the thought police. (gosh I'm cynical today).
LOL
This would be the govenment issue TFH or the Ren & Stimpy "happy hat". One could still fabricate one's own TFH (though it should be designed to repel magnetic waves in addition to e-waves) to wear underneath as a skull cap/helmet liner.
Eeek!
But the best ones are the ones you make yourself.
http://www.johnf-ingkerry.com/
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