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Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves

Posted by timothy on from the brain-please-activate-fingers dept.

mikael writes "An article on the BBC website is reporting that U.S. scientists have managed to develop a 'thinking cap' which allows a computer to receive commands from the electrical activity of a person's brain alone. Comprised of 64 electrodes, this cap allowed two users to control a cursor through pure thought alone, rather than through eye movements or other physical gestures." Unlike some previous efforts, this one doesn't require anything to be implanted in your brain.

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  1. Someone making mind control Illegal by stecoop · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I imagine this technology illegal if someone hooked this mind control up to a tivo like machine - when a commercial is playing you could think "I wish to skip this commercial" and the remote does basically a fast forward. Yeah we read the other day on /. that skipping commercial will be illegal one day so no one get a bright idea in making a mind control remote for tivo or we'll have to ban this too.