Researcher controls colleague’s motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface

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August 27, 2013

Researcher controls colleague’s motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface
Doree Armstrong and Michelle Ma
News and Information

University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher."

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/


University of Washington researcher Rajesh Rao, left, plays a computer game with his mind. Across campus, researcher Andrea Stocco, right, wears a magnetic stimulation coil over the left motor cortex region of his brain. Stocco’s right index finger moved involuntarily to hit the “fire” button as part of the first human brain-to-brain interface demonstration.
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/

[Scootaloo]

1. Well, that's either amazing, terrifying, fake, or all three

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Just think,...someday you may be able to have a troll literally go fuck themselves.

[blackspade]

3. That is messed up.

The implications of this are staggering.

[Heywood J]

4. Will it be able to make someone hold up the Queen of Diamonds? (NT)