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Scientist transmits message into the mind of a colleague 5,000 miles away using brain waves
The London Daily Mail ^ | August 29, 2014 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 08/29/2014 9:15:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Brain-wave sensing machines have been used to ‘telepathically’ control everything from real-life helicopters to characters in a computer game.

Now the technology has gone a step further by allowing someone in India to send an email to his colleague in France using nothing but the power of his mind.

The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) headsets to record electrical activity from neurons firing in the brain, and convert the words ‘hola’ and ‘ciao’ into binary.

In EEG, electrical currents in the brain are linked with different thoughts that are then fed into a computer interface. This computer analyses the signal and controls an action.

In the latest study, published in Plos One, researchers decided to replace the computer interface with another brain to receive the signals.

In the initial test, the greeting was sent from a volunteer in Thiruvananthapuram, India to Strasbourg, France.

There, a computer translated the message and then used electrical stimulation to implant it in the receiver’s mind.

This message appeared as flashes of light in the corner of their vision....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: brainwaves; email; medicine; science; telepathy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hola and ciao...

My perception of both words is that they are pretty much the same.

Ciao can be used to say hello and good-bye.

Hola is hello or hi.

How can you tell which one they’re sending?

If both could mean hi, there isn’t a big chance of getting it wrong is there.

Someone could fart on the other end of the line and one of those two words would come up, and the receiver would yell, “Success!”

Ah well maybe.... LOL


21 posted on 08/29/2014 10:52:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (We'll know when he's really hit bottom. They'll start referring to him as White.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminiscences of the original Star Trek.


22 posted on 08/29/2014 10:54:04 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

why when i saw this total recall image i immediately thought of GM?


23 posted on 08/30/2014 12:06:19 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well! That is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I’m going to get rid of my average tin foil and start wearing a tin hat that is much more protective.

My head is already itching with “brain waves” penetrating my thin tin foil.

Now, the question arises: Do these brain waves crawl up your neck and get under our tin foil hats? How do we keep them from doing that?

Life is getting very, very scary.


24 posted on 08/30/2014 4:09:11 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: DH

It’s worse than that. Brain waves travel through solid surfaces and enter your body through your feet. You are not really protected without foil insoles. By the way, have you seen Wierd Al’s video “Foil “?


25 posted on 08/30/2014 5:15:41 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I’ll keep my vintage Ebay bought old style metal helmet. The old steel pot.


26 posted on 08/30/2014 5:35:26 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I’ll keep my vintage Ebay bought old style metal helmet. The old steel pot.


27 posted on 08/30/2014 5:35:26 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

28 posted on 08/30/2014 6:01:33 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m channeling Bill Gates.....Yes, Bill...that’s right....three er make that four billion....I mean ten billion into my share account....I’m thinking of buying a few countries in the south Pacific..... Thanks Bill. And you’ll forget everything I said one minute after the transaction is complete.


29 posted on 08/30/2014 6:26:06 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Cvengr
When I was a kid, we did the same thing. The equipment was much cheaper back then.


30 posted on 08/30/2014 6:57:12 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

My husband and I tried something out one time while driving on a trip. He thought of a scene and I tried to see what he was thinking.

It worked! I saw exactly what he was thinking. He envisioned a buck and a doe standing by a fence and I saw it.


31 posted on 08/30/2014 7:08:15 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Mine too. I cannot tell you how many times I have my finger on the phone and it rings with her calling.

It is a real thing. But they are not doing it to send messages, they are doing it to control remote machinery.


32 posted on 08/30/2014 7:14:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: FredZarguna
So how is the transfer of simple mental impulses over such a great scientific breakthrough again.

The way I'm reading this, the brain waves are transmitted to a computer thousands of miles away and then from that computer to the other person. Wouldn't that mean the computer could read a person's thoughts and transmit them elsewhere? What a fun life that could be if NSA could read our minds

What if they could alter the messages in transmission? What if thoughts could be implanted in a person's mind via brainwaves?

This sounds like the plot of MINORITY REPORT....scary stuff. I hope this is bogus.

33 posted on 08/30/2014 7:27:32 AM PDT by grania
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To: Ditter

That’s pretty cool. Your interests and thinking must be very similar.


34 posted on 08/30/2014 8:15:25 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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