WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Four people were able to control a computer using their thoughts and an electrode-studded "thinking cap", U.S. researchers reported Monday
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Makes you wonder when keyboards and mouse goes the way of the Dodo if it ever does.
We've been able to do this for quite a while now, Prof. Kevin Warwick for instance. There's even an Irish company making a headset to play console games with simply using brainwaves.
The concept has been around for quite some time. I remember watching a documentary over 10 years ago on this sort of thing. At that point, the US military was performing preliminary testing to see if pilots could "navigate" through a very simple simulated maze using only their minds with such a "thinking cap". Mind you, it was only side to side movement - no up and down, pitch, roll, yaw, etc.
I think the US Navy was working on "direction of gaze" for a while as well where a computer would track what an operator was looking at on their control screen and allow them to activate certain functions, move the "mouse" etc.
interesting.
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wood wrote:The concept has been around for quite some time. I remember watching a documentary over 10 years ago on this sort of thing. At that point, the US military was performing preliminary testing to see if pilots could "navigate" through a very simple simulated maze using only their minds with such a "thinking cap". Mind you, it was only side to side movement - no up and down, pitch, roll, yaw, etc.
I think the US Navy was working on "direction of gaze" for a while as well where a computer would track what an operator was looking at on their control screen and allow them to activate certain functions, move the "mouse" etc.
interesting.
There are also primate projects with chimps able to manipulate a robotic arm via thought.
It has some interesting possibilities. Of course, we're still a long ways away from the AI Entity(which is what I thought of when I saw the thread title)
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Guardsman Bass wrote:It has some interesting possibilities. Of course, we're still a long ways away from the AI Entity(which is what I thought of when I saw the thread title)
Same here.
Without good, no evil. Without want, no lack. Without desire, no need. The circuit is one, and one is the machine.
I seem to remember a case where they implanted a node into the brain of a quadrapeligic, and he was able to (after some months) manuever a mouse around a screen and click on things.
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Guardsman Bass wrote:It has some interesting possibilities. Of course, we're still a long ways away from the AI Entity(which is what I thought of when I saw the thread title)
Same here.
Without good, no evil. Without want, no lack. Without desire, no need. The circuit is one, and one is the machine.
I seem to remember a case where they implanted a node into the brain of a quadrapeligic, and he was able to (after some months) manuever a mouse around a screen and click on things.
What? From Civilization: Call to Power? That wonder was SHIT within 30 turns it will rebel. I hated that thing. Think about it, every turn, it has a 3% chance to rebel? after 100 turns, it has rebelled 3 times. (good thing it cant do that)
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Guardsman Bass wrote:It has some interesting possibilities. Of course, we're still a long ways away from the AI Entity(which is what I thought of when I saw the thread title)
Same here.
Without good, no evil. Without want, no lack. Without desire, no need. The circuit is one, and one is the machine.
I seem to remember a case where they implanted a node into the brain of a quadrapeligic, and he was able to (after some months) manuever a mouse around a screen and click on things.
What? From Civilization: Call to Power? That wonder was SHIT within 30 turns it will rebel. I hated that thing. Think about it, every turn, it has a 3% chance to rebel? after 100 turns, it has rebelled 3 times. (good thing it cant do that)
It was funny as hell, though, if you got the Egalitarian Act; the damn thing would rebel, take your five largest cities, then rebel BACK to you 5 turns later! I remember I literally had to destroy the city it was hosted in by eliminating all the structures and turning everyone into merchants
Even without the act, it was fucking funny to see it hop around, taking 5 of everybodies cities with it.
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