This article talks about how the "ability to influence the
physical world merely by thought has been a dream of mankind for many
years. Now researchers are making real progress in letting people
control a PC simply by thinking, and the first crop of consumer Brain
Control Interface (BCI) headsets has arrived. Right now these are being
used only for simple games
and applications to support the technology are scarce." It includes an interview by the person leading the research for it.
I was a little shocked when I read this article mostly because I feel our world is so technologically advanced, but it's tweaking our activity levels, our society, especially the younger generation is lazy. There are definite advantages, especially for people who are disabled, either from the beginning of their lives or from an accident. Some can be so disabled and hurt that they can't even use sound software to communicate.
My question is how is this going to change society and how we use our brain to communicate?
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2359071,00.asp
I was a little shocked when I read this article mostly because I feel our world is so technologically advanced, but it's tweaking our activity levels, our society, especially the younger generation is lazy. There are definite advantages, especially for people who are disabled, either from the beginning of their lives or from an accident. Some can be so disabled and hurt that they can't even use sound software to communicate.
My question is how is this going to change society and how we use our brain to communicate?
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2359071,00.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJJPbpHoPWo&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Great article you posted. This kind of stuff is fascinating. Who needs a keyboard anyway? I could have written all of this in about 1 second. The interviewee mentions this technology being involved in video games, which would be amazing.
Forseeing potential problems is difficult. I can see how if we rely too heavily on this type of technology and replace it with things that are manually controlled, you have to wonder about technical malfunctions, etc.
This wasn't a good comment, but I liked the post