Brain Computer Interface
Not a secret, public knowledge
If you want to ignore that such devices exist then you are either naive or not interested in science. The brain computer interface exist commercially for more than a decade. In fact the earliest research on electrical activity of the brain was in 1920's. With advent of computers the first real study of brain-computer interface which I'm aware of is begun in 1970's at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The speed in which these interfaces evolve is unbelievable. Different names for these devices are:
Right now there are many different fields of usage:
- Medical purposes: ALS (
already tested),
Paralyzed and Alzheimer patients, blindness, hearing, controlling your artificial limbs, addiction, depression, etc.
- Comfort:
Typing, surfing internet, moving the wheelchair, turning on and off all your home devices. All with your thoughts. The most famous example of this technology was
Stephan Hawking's wheelchair with its attached screen.
- Gaming:
Neuro gaming (now available in wide range).
- Military: Talk to each other remotely and wirelessly
just by thinking, having a total view of the battle in their mind, preventing soldiers to be afraid, etc.
- Vehicles control: Wheelchair
¹′
², airplanes,
helicopters, ships, cars, even your mower or any other moving system.
- Security: Authentication of Password.
In the past you needed to put an EEG helmet on your head, 1970's. Later they implanted (needed surgery) these electrode in your head, first decade of this century. Now they are able to put these electrodes in your blood vessels without surgery (Australian company Synchron). In less than ten years any of us will have one or the other kind of these devices at home. Privacy is gone, Good luck.
