Mental Typewriter Reads Minds
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MrSouth Africa Icrontian
A computerized typewriter that can read minds, on display at the CeBIT high-tech fair, has the potential to help patients incapacitated by injury or disease to communicate again.
The prototype of the "mental typewriter" made it's public debut at the event. Two subjects wearing a sort of leather swimming cap covered with a web of wires that were linked to a computer in front of them, tested out the invention. While their bodies remained perfectly still, both men imagined movements that were then played out on the screen.
The prototype of the "mental typewriter" made it's public debut at the event. Two subjects wearing a sort of leather swimming cap covered with a web of wires that were linked to a computer in front of them, tested out the invention. While their bodies remained perfectly still, both men imagined movements that were then played out on the screen.
Source: PhysorgThe brain's electrical signals are transmitted by wire to the computer which can read them and transform them into commands.
The developers said they did not believe patients would need much training to learn to use the system.
"It's not the man but the machine that has to learn," Curio said.
The computer adapts to each person and requires only 15 to 20 minutes to create a personal profile.
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