Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Look What's Coming....Mental Typewriters!

Still very slow, but they are continuing to improve. Signals from the brain are measured by 128 electrodes affixed to the subject's scalp, similar to an electroencephalogram (EEG). With the help of a software program, specific signals are picked out among the nebulous mass of information.
The computer's self-learning capacity allows it to identify individual brain patters and constantly improve its performance.
By analyzing neural signals it is possible to determine before the actual movement takes place whether a person intends to move his or her right or left hand, for example.

Very cool, here's the press release.

2 Comments:

At 12:46 PM, Blogger Sergeant America said...

I don't think I want that interface on my noggin'! The horror ... the horror?

... what if there was a head readin', thought stealin' virus?

;)

 
At 5:22 PM, Blogger Dan Zaremba said...

Nobody would like to see what's inside of my head!

 

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