Mind Speech

Via Patrick Appel at Andrew Sullivan: Mind speech is almost here. Reading thought patterns from electrodes attached to the scalp makes progress.

Scientists are now working on systems that allow people to use their thoughts alone to control devices. Klaus-Robert Müller, the director of the Machine Learning/Intelligent Data Analysis Group at the Technical University of Berlin, has a system that allows subjects to play pinball with their mind alone.

Of course they can do rather better if they actually stick the wires into your head - as they have with monkeys.

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