The devices are able to manage the idea, mentioned in numerous works of fiction for the last hundred years, and Now finally began to appear neurointerfaces really allows us to identify certain types of brain activity.
On the cover photo NeyroChat system helmet neurochat.ru, Which became the winner of startups Biotehmed conference in Gelendzhik and early September.
With this system is completely paralyzed people can enter text and communicate in social networks. On average input phrases they spend about a minute.
In contrast to the text input system, to manage the movement of the eye that Intel has done to Stephen Hawking, NeyroChat can be used even by those who are not able to control the direction of gaze.
Helmet eight sensors, one more - clothespin on his ear.
Entering text is arranged as follows. The screen keyboard is displayed, which are alternately highlighted the different groups of keys. Man concentrates on any letter or word, and at a time when the element "lights up" the brain registers it manages to detect brain waves. When the desired letter or word illuminate 3-4 times in a row, there is character or word input. This entry was faster and more accurately the traditional method, when the team detected the cursor on-screen keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v = 2wacB6Vsms0
Of course, this is still very far from the "mind-reading", it is only the first steps, but now technology is helping to keep in touch with the world of people that have been completely deprived of such an opportunity.
© 2018 Alex Nadozhin