Do Your Stuff with Brainwaves

All work – emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches – do every thing with nothing more than brainwaves and mind control. Looking ahead in the future, keyboards and computer mice might be remembered only as medieval–style torture devices for the wrists.

It may not be too long before we get to see these radical changes. Thanks to the sensational research work on brain patterns being done by scientists at Brown University and other institutions, in collaboration with Foxborough, Mass.–based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research was published in the British science journal, Nature.

Research is being done on the brain of a 26year old quadriplegic man, Matthew Nagle. Nagle was hooked up to a computer via an implant smaller than an aspirin that sits on top of his brain and reads electrical patterns. Using that technology, he learned how to move a cursor around a screen, play simple games, control a robotic arm, and even – couch potatoes, prepare to gasp in awe – turn his brain into a TV remote control.
Nagle was able to accomplish all this because the brain has been greatly demystified in laboratories over the last decade.

Cyberkinetics and a host of other companies are working on turning those discoveries into real products.

Brain–reading technology is improving rapidly. Sometime back, Sony took out a patent on a game system that beams data directly into the mind without implants. It uses a pulsed ultrasonic signal that induces sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images.

Stu Wolf, one of the top scientists at Darpa, the Pentagon’s scientific research agency which gave birth to the Internet, believes in about 20years, we’ll have super fast, super tiny computers that make today’s machines look like typewriters, we’ll all be wearing computers in headbands by then.

Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network–enabled telepathy" – instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else’s brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking.

Via: CNNMoney