All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force ... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. --Max Planck

Writing Emails with your Mind

Writing Emails with your Mind

Aug 15, 2006-- While no spoons were bent, this was definitely mind over matter. Sitting stone-still under a skullcap fitted with electrodes, American scientist Peter Brunner stares at a computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message -- letter by letter -- on a giant screen overhead. Brunner and colleagues from the Wadsworth Center in New York were demonstrating a "brain computer interface (BCI)," an astounding technology which digitalizes brain signals emitted as electrical impulses -- picked up by the electrodes -- to convey intent. It may sound out there, but for the 100 million reported potential users, it's the difference between night and day. Thanks to this technology, one neurobiologist, who would otherwise not even be able to communicate, can even write grant proposals! (2921 reads)


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