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Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.
The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients' brains.
Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.
The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16811042
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)Just what we need.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Of course, the real question is do we withhold the good it could do to keep the bad from happening?
tinrobot
(10,900 posts)I'm sure the CIA is already using this to develop new forms of "enhanced interrogation"
napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)To pick of the brain waves. Luckily nothing like THAT on the horizon!
http://www.devicemag.com/2012/02/08/google-glasses-rumored-to-house-smartphone-capabilities/
Rochester
(838 posts)what will happen when the machines can't just read but also write or erase? (shudders)
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Tumbulu
(6,278 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Now this is some next level army technology.
Silent Talk is the Pentagon's $4 million DARPA (Defense Advanced Resarch Projects) initiative to develop technology that would allow U.S. soldiers to communicate by "computer-mediated telepathy".
No PDAs, Blackberrys, iPhones or even talking required.
Just hands-free, voice-free, wireless, brain-to-brain communicado.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/pentagons-4-million-military-telepathy-program-silent-talk
Javaman
(62,530 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)You're all doomed.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Now, that's a scary thought!