A message to the future: Brain-texting
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To be filed under Dream on. The SciFi channel currently hosts an innovation and concepts competition. So far, the site has welcomed a short list of submitted funky ideas, DVD 3D hologram projector or the spy satellite tracker. But among the ideas, the Thought Messenger earpiece is a very cool one.
Its bottom line: “Reading your surface thoughts, the telepathic device will translate them into text messages, sending them to any contact in your cell phone’s address book that you can think of. You activate the earpiece by tapping the button on its side, or, if you really want to keep things hands-free, you can designate a ‘thought word’ to activate it.”
The earset would use the traditional Bluetooth protocol to transmit thoughts-to-text, the rest of the process would be assured by WiFi or cellular technologies.
Crazy, isn’t it? Absolutely surrealist idea? Not that sure. “A paralyzed man using a new brain sensor has been able to move a computer cursor, open e-mail and control a robotic device simply by thinking about doing it, a team of scientists,” wrote Reuters/ABC.
Of course, the technology relies on implanted electrodes in the man’s brain. But as the skull set (a earset that propagates sounds via your skull) has been already available in Japan, let’s just imagine that within maybe five or six years, we would divide our thoughts into two categories. For ourself and for communication.
Jul 18, 2006 | By Nuno
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