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Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App
rtoz (2530056) writes A London based company, This Place, is launching a new app "MindRDR" for providing one more way for controlling Google Glass. It will allow the users to control the Google Glass with their thoughts. This MindRDR application bridges the Neurosky EEG biosensor and Google Glass. It allows users to take photos and share them on Twitter and Facebook by simply using brainwaves alone. This Place has put the code of this app on GitHub for others to use it and expand on it.
With an EEG on every user, imagine how much you can charge marketers for showing their images specifically to an audience who provably don't have any mental activity. Of course that mostly means showing them to other marketers but still I think they're onto a good thing here.
it will be a dark day in hell before an american corporation/government agency gets me to willingly wear a device that allows them to read thoughts right out of my brain
I'm not opposed to the technology just opposed to it coupling to google/apple/cia/nsa directly
I have always thought that voice recognition was a short term, stop gap measure before thought recognition. Nice to see it arrive.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Alec Baldwin did it already.
Not quite in the realm of hollywood but it you wander around with a receiver/hack into the glasses from another remote location you could pick up on what trigger thoughts folk are thinking,... leading to,,. the DREADED THOUGHT POLICE! (Oy! you just thought deviant/subversive thoughts! we've a logfile! date stamped and recorded for eternity with our emergency data retention laws.) BTW I just patented this and it'll cost you a trillion dollars per license... (pity the gov is allowed to just arbitrarily ignore that though)
("Take a picture!" blast it, why won't it work?") Ah! ("Poluchit fotografiu!")
*Click*
Now you can look even more like a dork and get singled out for exclusion from public venues even faster!
Wow, the marketing practically writes itself here.
I tried it. When we downloaded the pics it took it was just filled with lots of street shots of side boobs.
Can't we just be content with Mind controlled ears ?
Tin foil hat now made out of glass, News at 11.
Just transmit an uninterrupted stream of everything you look at. No need to turn it on/off or take old fashioned pictures.
So, instead of "selfies" now, devices can automatically take pictures of every second of life, whenever one feels like it, to show to the world.
At least now the excuse "the thought just slipped from me" can take on a whole new meaning!
..singularity is nearer than we think (pun!)
Wake me up when it can give me an electric jolt each time I think about sex.
"Oh look at that smoking hot babe! I gotta keep that - oh no wait, how do I change my default settings? My girlfriend will just
ONE IMAGE SUCCESSFULLY POSTED TO FACEBOOK TIMELINE
It's nearly a Shadowrun level technology, source code included. I'm no android developer and I barely understand it, but looks pretty simple. I really like this comment: //we just ignore all errors for the moment and pretend everything is ok to the user
return "OK";
And you guys complaining. Be exited for a moment: it's *** mind reading technology thousands years before personal notebook of God Emperor of Dune. Did you expect it to enter mass market in your lifetime? When I played with IBM Via Voice '98, which could barely understand what I said, I liked it just because of a concept, alpha version of the future. And now I see this freaking wow.
At least give them some credit. Don't you think it's just awesome?
What if I told you that they already can?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
You might not believe it yet, Darpa was working on a computer based program for interfacing between two people without having a person to communicate between them, in 2009 wired.com published this...
http://www.wired.com/2009/05/pentagon-preps-soldier-telepathy-push/
We've had remote telepathy since at least before 2005 that DOESN'T require a chip in your brain or a machine near your head at all for more than basic communications.
Tin foil hats won't help you, you need a faraday cage.
I am from the year 2066 typing on a backported linux distro which can type into the past, please don't put the googles on, you will change into something horrific. there are many of these augmented humans now, they lost their spirit.
Web Browser Control Using EMG Based Sub Vocal Speech Recognition
Jorgensen, C. ; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA ; Binsted, K.
http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2005/2268/09/22680294c-abs.html
When all of these existing methods are integrated into a single device things are going to get very interesting. You will be able to phone anyone from any environment and only they will hear you, in a synthetic voice derived from your natural voice, or anyone else's voice! Knowing who you are really communicating with, and if it is even a human will become a significant issue.