Tuesday, January 12, 2010

This sounds like almost a good idea

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time
By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" process takes about 50 milliseconds - the same amount of time for a non-paralyzed, neurologically intact person to speak their thoughts. The study marks the first successful demonstration of a permanently installed, wireless implant for real-time control of an external device.
Which means that we're not too far from the day when our thoughts are no longer private.
"If women knew, if they even had the slightest idea of what men were thinking, they'd never stop slapping us."~Larry Miller

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