Not long ago HotHardware.com gave you a look at a product manufactured by OCZ that made use of brainwaves as a futuristic but in-the-here-and-now game controller. Dubbed the NIA, for Neural Impulse Actuator, instead of buttons and joysticks, this device gave user the ability to control in-game movement with their mind.
At the time, it sounded almost a little crazy but it worked, at least in novel sort of way, perhaps for some freaky party fun. In reality, for us, the product was more of an under-pinning that if mankind can dream it up, for the most part anything can be built. Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s reality, as they say.
And so say the rather brainy folks at the University of Southampton as well. They’ve taken the concept of brain power technology and applied it to communication- as in brain-to-brain direct.
Oh, I liked that piece. Shall have to go read more!
Like the matrix?
I heard this one on the SGU. It was the fiction.
Their method is not direct and is extremely primitive. it’s less efficient than simply showing a flashing LED – it’s using subtle changes in frequency to provoke a subconcious response. That’s not even Brain to Brain – it’s brain to computer to LED to eye to brain, and it’s not communication because no decoding process takes place. They have a response, but they get no further than that.
If this is Brain to Brain information transfer, then talking gibberish is telepathy.
Basically it’s kind of a stretch
(I just realised that wasn’t too clear)
by showing a flashing LED I mean showing it on for a 1 and off for a 0 – the frequencies are just unneccessary steps from what I can see
and by no decoding process, I mean that by the looks of things, the person receiving the signals doesn’t seem to know what he’s receiving, even if the computer does
one of my favorite theories about mankind is that we are all organic computers, which seems to me to be ever more believable, the more I notice the similarities between the workings of my brain and that of a computer. The worrying part is that my brain keeps deleting its temporary files too quickly, and I can’t find the settings tab. If the purpose of life is to discover your creator, then I am really worried that we (or I) were created by microsoft. I guess the intelligent ones must be apple.
The original point I was going to make was that ‘telepathy’ = wireless technology.
time for my medication
Oh my, we need to learn a whole new language .. probably will be more like gym in the brain by that time … marching around … with weird arm movements … Oh well, it can be done apperently (I take it, it has been done correct, I mean .. guessing whether it is a 1 or a 0 is the same as yes or no .. 50% chance of having it right.), but to be more usefull .. they probably will need to link to other brain patterns/systems, not the moving your arm stuff and def. not the binary language. For fur perhaps, but not as in being very usefull. The receiver just sits there watching the led, but he/she will need to focus on that otherwise it wont work, a bit a zombie, nothing more than a sensor. Why such a complex led signal I wonder, why not something that reads more easy?
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wow….. next step, having goole implanted into your brain!
*google :S i fail at spelling
utoh! where’s my copy of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy??? :0
Wow! Brain waves turned into binary! That’s cool, I think this is the beginning of telepathy and I can see how it may evolve in the future.
For instance let’s say we swapped the LED and the “sender” guy with someone who is either telling the truth or a lie. I think subtle changes in the body language will be picked up by the subconscious mind and transferred to a 1 or a 0, lie or truth. The human lie detector.
I don’t know, just reading the above description gave me an immediate headache…..
LC x
Describing this as a brain-to-brain communicative tool is more than slightly misleading. It’s merely replacing regular sensory input and output with various physical perhipheral tools. It is no more a brain-to-brain system than prescribing a word in raw thought, articulating that word, having a recipient listen and then having their brain decipher the meaning. In the linguistic terms, we prefer to call this process talking.
This is just cutting out the middle man of actually having to verbalise and listen.
@ Lady Claire – Have to say, it wasn’t the easiest video either. Very dry. Nae fun. Looked like something from the 70s and a lesser game than Atari Tennis.
@derren browni know about this what i wanted to tell derren personally instead of in words its a see it to believe it i had something done to my brain by scientists at edinburgh university a good cop is helping me and he is to question them regarding this i know what a computer in the mind can do an experiment which happened to me illegally so i found this interesting, mine happened to me 1993 only due to a good cop it to be investigated thank goodness something new for derren if he wants to see it in the near future
this is most interesting, and gives a realization to the progression of technology working with the neurological system , to think of the total precision of the frequency and the intensely minute deferential with in it to translate the alpha wave signal to electronic input so it can be processed by a computer , this may also speed the prgression of the evolutionary step of it being a natural thing for the human brain to transmit and receive signals for person to person i suppose telepathy , the are obviously signs of this already within the species but it is very misunderstood and wrongly thought of , but this kind of stuff as above in the article allows people to see things like this differently, making it not so strange and not a super natural thing but a natural one, bye , nice 1
Did they not think that the hefty back brain and the lack of speech in a stage of early man might have meant a branch had telepathy?