18 Mar 2008
New Scientist write about a neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals in the neck
It was demoed at a Texas Instruments conference. There’s still a bit of a delay between the thought and the speech, but it’s still pretty impressive.
Watch it here.
Matthew is a Content Director at London-based ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH). Before that he was Head of Digital at MTV UK. His interests include playing Super Mario Galaxy, cooking strange recipes and perving over Apple's products but never being quite able to afford them.
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Eisley 18 Mar 2008
ReportAmazing. Finally, with silent phone calls, I may be able to go back to the watching films at the cinema and stop wanting to bludgeon people in the quiet zone of the train.
I guess the key problem will be working out which thoughts to communicate and which not to communicate. Remember Flash Gordon accidentally telling Princess Aurora, “This girl’s really turning me on” by mistake when he was wearing the telepathic communicator? (Who’d have thought that Flash Gordon would have been predicting the future - a bit.)
Tive 18 Mar 2008
ReportHAHA! Yes, greater mind control will have to be exercised to avoid this becoming the latest truth serum.