'Brainwave' cap controls computer

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BBC News


The cursor movements were recorded: blue is slowest, and red fastest

A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer.

Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes.

Previous research has shown that monkeys can control a computer with electrodes implanted into their brain.

The New York team reported their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4074869.stm

[The Doctor.]

1. I've been saying we'd have 'induction tech' soon-

Thanks for these posts - this one is astounding.

Ever since I saw the experiment that allowed a cursor to be controlled from a simple cranial implant I've been expecting great things.

Now if only the fundies don't kill us all...

[The Doctor.]

2. Upon thinking of this...

How long do you think it will be before we have full-feedback synesthetic induction?

(sensory integration that is....)