Brain-Twitter Project Offers Hope to Paralyzed Patients

[Posteritatis]

Via CNN (unstable link, I think?):

(CNN) -- Adam Wilson posted two messages on Twitter on April 15. The first one, "GO BADGERS," might have been sent by any University of Wisconsin-Madison student cheering for the school team.

His second post, 20 minutes later, was a little more unusual: "SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN."

Wilson, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, was confirming an announcement he had made two weeks earlier -- his lab had developed a way to post messages on Twitter using electrical impulses generated by thought.

This is fantastic. Anything that helps against locked-in syndrome is great by me.

(Posting here rather than GD or something to avoid the standard two-minutes-hate the T word would provoke.)

[lisa58]

1. amazing - magic!

[Duer 157099]

2. I also think this is awesome. However...

as with anything, there's always a sinister side lurking about...

Just think, it will bring a whole new dimension to "thought crimes"! I jest, and yet, ... I don't.