Collaborate Disseminate
For people who have lost the ability to speak, the future may include brain implants that bring that ability back. But could these brain implants also allow them to sing? …read more Continue reading Re-Creating Pink Floyd In the Name of Speech
Several years ago, a company called Neurosky came out with an interesting chipset meant to be put in an EEG headset. This chipset would track your brainwaves, do some fancy math, and output a few numbers based on the Delta, Gamma, Alpha, and Beta waves in your brain. Of course, the senseable thing to do with this technology would be to put it in a Star Wars-branded toy where you pretend to be a Jedi. All was good with the world, and a few people hacked these Jedi Mind Trainers for some interesting builds.
But the Neurosky chip was still …read more
A toy EEG headset and a drink dispenser, hacked together as a mind-reading bar bot. Continue reading This Bartender Robot Reads Brainwaves to Take Drink Orders
So [DARPA] wants to start hacking human brains, With the help of the biomedical device center at the university of Texas in Dallas. This does sound a bit crazy but DARPA does crazy. Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one.
The initial plans to turn us all into mindless zombies seem to be shelved for now, however they are working on what they call Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT), which they explain means using the body’s nervous system to enhance and speed up the learning process. This could be achieved by using a process known as …read more
Brain–computer interfaces are with us but research into how to secure them is lagging behind
Continue reading How hacking brainwaves could reveal our deeply guarded secrets
