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Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat

Posted by samzenpus on from the mouth-of-cyber-sauron dept.

ZonkerWilliam writes "Newscientist has an interesting article on tapping the nerve impulses going from the brain to the vocal chords, allowing for 'Voiceless' phone calls. "With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerized voice." It's not quite telepathy, but it's pretty close."

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  1. Re:Not even close by EdIII · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's not "pretty" close at all.

    Read the definition again. Telepathy involves communication directly to ANOTHER brain without the use of any sensory apparatus on the receiving side, OR the sending the side.

    Whatever you are talking about building will effectively create new sensory apparatuses.

    Whatever it is, it will not be telepathy.

  2. Re:screw myminicity by jacquesm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    actually, no that's a troll that has cut & pasted stuff from my post.

    But from the looks of it some 13 year old with a grudge is trying hard to make me look bad.

    The myminicity plague seems to have been neutralized.

    I often wonder if these trolls are aware that the /. admins all have access to their particulars anyway and that they are far from anonymous.

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