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Take a Picture Just By Thinking About It, Using Google Glass With MindRDR App

Posted by timothy on from the what's-on-your-mind-and-your-ears dept.

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.

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  1. This is worth a fortune for Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  2. No thank you by maliqua · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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

    1. Re:No thank you by Trepidity · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why worry, when the full terms and conditions of the Google Privacy Policy are protecting you?

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    2. Re:No thank you by NotInHere · · Score: 1

      True. Our methods to bring technology to the mass market are currently broken.

    3. Re:No thank you by somegeekynick · · Score: 1

      Not long before Google or Facebook buys them.

    4. Re:No thank you by LordLimecat · · Score: 2

      a device that allows them to read thoughts right out of my brain

      I dont think thats how EEGs work, but its good to see that Slashdot can still elicit a hysterical response at will with their stories.

    5. Re:No thank you by TheRealHocusLocus · · Score: 1

      Reading your thoughts is not the scary bit.

      "Hey, you're wearing one of those EEG thingies right?"
      "Yup."
      "Remember... when you posted that photo of your lawn the other day?"
      "Sure do."
      "Right... golly, it worked! It's coming in now. I see you are... sitting on the toilet? Gross!"
      "Hey!"
      "And just THINK... all you had to do was REMEMBER!"
      "Cut it out!!"
      "Oh look, another one. You let your dog watch you poop?"
      [xxxxxx] has left the chatroom

      Why use a side channel attack when a direct approach also works.

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  3. The future by Brad1138 · · Score: 1

    I have always thought that voice recognition was a short term, stop gap measure before thought recognition. Nice to see it arrive.

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    1. Re:The future by Osgeld · · Score: 4, Insightful

      EEG is like VR and 3D, its a big fucking deal every X time period, then it goblin farts away cause its a gimmicky pain in the ass

    2. Re:The future by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3

      no, EEG is a big fucking deal if you are actually using it for medical purposes, you clown.

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    3. Re:The future by LordLimecat · · Score: 1

      Its a little depressing how many people on slashdot know so little about any particular topic, but feel compelled to express an ill-informed opinion.

  4. Already done by Chemtox · · Score: 2

    Alec Baldwin did it already.

  5. Think in Russian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ("Take a picture!" blast it, why won't it work?") Ah! ("Poluchit fotografiu!")

    *Click*

  6. It doesn't work. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried it. When we downloaded the pics it took it was just filled with lots of street shots of side boobs.

  7. Glassholes /w mind activated pervert cams by WaffleMonster · · Score: 1

    Can't we just be content with Mind controlled ears ?

  8. The New Age Hat by Joviex · · Score: 2

    Tin foil hat now made out of glass, News at 11.

  9. Simpler solution by itzly · · Score: 1

    Just transmit an uninterrupted stream of everything you look at. No need to turn it on/off or take old fashioned pictures.

    1. Re:Simpler solution by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      I imagine that is the eventual goal Google has - it's just not feasible with current battery technology.

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  10. Oops by ComputersKai · · Score: 1

    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!

  11. astounding that this is barely news.. by zr · · Score: 1

    ..singularity is nearer than we think (pun!)

  12. imperfect brain-wave translations by SemperUbi · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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

    1. Re:imperfect brain-wave translations by AtariEric · · Score: 5, Funny

      It'll be transmitted to Google Plus - you'll be perfectly safe.

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  13. And a related tech for voice input from 2005 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

  14. Re:Boooring by unrtst · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when it can give me an electric jolt each time I think about sex.

    It's far cheaper and easier to simulate that with off the shelf hardware:
    http://www.amazon.com/outlets-...