The World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface

Wait, let me get this striaght - you put that little cap thing on, and it can "read your mind", and type the letter you want?

Why isnt this on Stephen Hawking??

He has pretty much the same thing...except it allows him to talk, which...is probably better than typing a single letter at a time.

Andrew Watson
Moravian College, Class of 2012
Intended B.A. in Physics, B.S. in Math

World's First? What about Emotiv? It has been out a little while and is under $500. I haven't seen software for it to pick letters, though.

About 10 years ago, when I last saw Stephen Hawking's interface, it allowed him to pick words from a search tree using tiny muscle movements. He could also pre-input statements, then select the whole statement as if it were a single word. It took practice to find the words quickly, but was usually faster than typing each letter. I assume it has been much improved since then...

I hadn't heard Dr. Hawking had switched off of physical movements and on to brain waves... State of the art on brain wave sensing is much slower than detecting muscle movement.

Wow we can make money directly with our minds ( no other organs involved ). Pretty cool but the banks still want to be in the loop and say NO.

It is great for completely paralyzed patients. In any case, they should soon come out with the wireless version of this machine...

I think it's awesome they let Ron Weasley try it out.

This is TECHLEPATHY... Telepathy enabled technology. Cool stuff!

The Emotiv is wireless...

Its over-hyped by their marketing department, unfortunately....

AFAIK, and I'm reasonably sure about it, Stephen Hawking doesn't have a BCI (brain-computer interface) device, except in the indirect sense that any human-machine interface device is a BCI. The only muscle over which he has any voluntary control is in his cheek, and he controls his speech synthesizer or other computer via a little camera that detects his cheek twitches. (It's interesting, BTW, that his speech synth uses an ancient DOS program.) I'm sure he would be overjoyed to have a decent BCI, though, and I hope they develop fast enough that he'll have one soon.

si.emgo

Let me get this straight. You're getting a B.A. in Physics and a B.S. in Math????

Why not a B.S. in Physics. Considering that you are getting the B.S. math degree, you would only have to take a few more classes to get the more robust B.S. in physics. I got a B.S. in physics and a math minor to boot.

interesting, found great videos and txt here www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/222-the-worlds-first-commercial-brain-computer-interface-

Can it click a link if I think "click" while I look at the link? It would be awesome to surf the web just by thinking..

How about scrolling down a window? Can I think "flame" or "troll" and it will automatically insert my favorite snide remark?

That is change I can believe in!!!

I wonder if it would improve performance if the user shaved their head......Did this concept come from an Asimov book? any way eventually it will be the size of a bluetooth earphone. Give it five years

Ron Weasley.. Nice

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It's a start, but I am truely looking forward to the day this will be a little more advanced, when you can actually control the mouse with your brain. I don't think it's that far out in the furture. Text will probably be typed from your speech not "read" from your brain. At least this version would have appeared more cool had it been wireless :)

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Charles Potty

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Paley
http://burnwiigames.org/

Seems like the market is for the paralyzed and not the average consumer. I’d put my long term money on the Japanese and their MRI technique for reading actual pictures out of your mind. Once quantum computing comes about that will be something amazing to see in high res!

www.scootek.co.uk

what an amazing computer.! ill be wait for next Intendix technology update.

Joy
http://widelegpants.info

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