Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011


	Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011

Octane

11-18-2006 9:17 AM

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hitachi, neuroimaging, neuroscience, japan, brain, mind, microsurgery

Octane says:

Makes you think, eh?

Tee hee!

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11-18-2006 7:53 PM

ArthurDwayne

But won't this close off the 'thinking as I type' scenario people use so often? Won't this accidentally set stuff off?

3-19-2007 8:19 PM

thinboy00

only if they make it over-sensitive... otherwise it could be set to only detect thoughts clearly targeted to it...

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