using your brain waves to control the environment around you

[bobapanbeers]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1658920/

It may sound like science fiction, but using your brain waves to control the environment around you, like the lights in your home or even your toaster, is already a reality.

One Toronto-based company has developed a system called thought-control computing and it's exploring a range of commercial opportunities that include screens on airplanes and video games.

Its philosophy is simple: If you can plug it in, you can control it with your brain.

Ariel Garten, CEO of InteraXon, says the possibilities are endless.

“Basically this is ultimately going to be the way that we engage the world on daily basis,” she said in an interview.

“This is the way that we're going to be controlling the lights in our homes, controlling our household products, (and) dialling our mobile phones.”

The technology involves a regular-looking headset — but one embedded with electrodes that read brain waves. The brain waves are then processed on a computer.

“When you focus, you create beta waves; when you relax, you create alpha waves,” Garten explained.

She says once a person learns to control the alpha and beta waves, the “control signal” can then be used to program anything from lighting, to music, to motors. ETC (read the article)

Imagine all the tvs that will switch on to porn....

[1337Hendrix]

While this article is interesting, it doesn't explain where they are reading the frequency spectra.

This kind of stuff has been going on for years in research laboratories with spectra from supplementary motor areas.

It is interesting how this article makes it seem like controlling these waves is easy. I know from personal experience, and from the literature, that achieving level of waveform control required for device manipulation is no easy task. In fact, some individuals never gain that control over extensive training periods.

So, in my personal opinion, this technology the very first precursor to a workable first gen system. If they can get an accurate control algorithm, they will have contributed greatly. I think thought control over devices will be realized through more direct means, such as reading internally generated potentials such as motor potentials or the berignshaft potential. Consequently, I would like to be the guy who proves this, so my engineering education is focusing on it.

[Yurpen]

Originally Posted by 1337Hendrix

While this article is interesting, it doesn't explain where they are reading the frequency spectra.

This kind of stuff has been going on for years in research laboratories with spectra from supplementary motor areas.

It is interesting how this article makes it seem like controlling these waves is easy. I know from personal experience, and from the literature, that achieving level of waveform control required for device manipulation is no easy task. In fact, some individuals never gain that control over extensive training periods.

So, in my personal opinion, this technology the very first precursor to a workable first gen system. If they can get an accurate control algorithm, they will have contributed greatly. I think thought control over devices will be realized through more direct means, such as reading internally generated potentials such as motor potentials or the berignshaft potential. Consequently, I would like to be the guy who proves this, so my engineering education is focusing on it.

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[Mirana]

Did you just watch Inception?

[Mantikore]

The first thing i thought of was a hyper advanced sex toy