Neuroheadset coming soon
While initially being produced for video gaming applications, a new device that is purported to actually be able to read your brain has all kinds of other potential uses.
According to the above-linked AP article, the device, by Emotiv Systems, Inc., reads the brain’s electrical signals, allowing it to “detect emotions such as anger, excitement and tension, as well as facial expressions and cognitive actions like pushing and pulling objects.”
It will be interesting to see how accurate it is and what its response times are, but this device could conceivably be used for anything that can be interfaced through a computer.
3 Comments
February 25th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
The accuracy and response times will only improve with time. This is really revolutionary technology if taken to its logical extremes.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Absolutely, Allan. For some hawkish reason my mind seems to always leap to military applications (but let’s face it, the most impressive technology goes into or comes out of the war toys, right?), but just imagine a combat helicopter or jet that responded with the pilot’s thought?
Forget hand-eye coordination; it’s all about hand-mind coordination now!
February 25th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Er… mind-headset coordination, that is.
Clearly I’m not ready for the headset… there’s no telling how it would respond to my disordered brain!