Sawin
08-29-2013, 10:08
Yup... really. It's coming! Everyone get your tin foil hats! [tinhat]
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/health/brain-interface/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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Researchers at the University of Washington have demonstrated what they say is the first example of a noninvasive human-to-human brain interface. In a video posted online (http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/), they show how a scientist could control another scientist's hand motions just by using brain signals sent over the Internet.
The two participants in this demonstration were the scientists themselves, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco. They were situated on different parts of the University of Washington's campus when Stocco's finger moved on a keyboard, controlled by Rao's brain signal.
An ethical review board gave the two of them specifically -- and no one else -- permission to try it out, Stocco said.
"So far, we are the only human beings whose brains are being connected," said Stocco, a research assistant professor at the university's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences.
They have now done several trials of this brain communication in their unpublished pilot study (http://homes.cs.washington.edu/%7Erao/brain2brain/experiment.html) and hope to expand it.
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It's pretty interesting science, that's about all.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/28/health/brain-interface/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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Researchers at the University of Washington have demonstrated what they say is the first example of a noninvasive human-to-human brain interface. In a video posted online (http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/), they show how a scientist could control another scientist's hand motions just by using brain signals sent over the Internet.
The two participants in this demonstration were the scientists themselves, Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco. They were situated on different parts of the University of Washington's campus when Stocco's finger moved on a keyboard, controlled by Rao's brain signal.
An ethical review board gave the two of them specifically -- and no one else -- permission to try it out, Stocco said.
"So far, we are the only human beings whose brains are being connected," said Stocco, a research assistant professor at the university's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences.
They have now done several trials of this brain communication in their unpublished pilot study (http://homes.cs.washington.edu/%7Erao/brain2brain/experiment.html) and hope to expand it.
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It's pretty interesting science, that's about all.