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 ...
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
Reminiscences of the original Star Trek.
why when i saw this total recall image i immediately thought of GM?
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.
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 “?
I’ll keep my vintage Ebay bought old style metal helmet. The old steel pot.
I’ll keep my vintage Ebay bought old style metal helmet. The old steel pot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That’s pretty cool. Your interests and thinking must be very similar.
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