The Future of Mobile Phones: brain interfaces

A genius on the part of a group of researchers from San Diego who have developed a system that allows users to dial a phone number on a cell phone using only their thoughts! This is the first instance of a "brain interface" applied to mobile phones! This would provide many new and enormous advantages: for example, people with disabilities or anyone who needs it busy as it is nowadays, engaged in performing more tasks simultaneously and maybe even have your hands full or who regularly perform activities that require a high degree of mental focus.

This highly innovative technology has been developed by the University of California, San Diego in the field of neuroscience, which was attended by the researcher TZYY-Ping Jung and colleagues. The team TZYY Jung-Ping has developed a system that keeps track of brain electrical activity using electrodes and a diadem of a Bluetooth device. Users who have experienced the system, were shown digits from zero to nine flashing at slightly different speeds on the computer screen. The frequency of each digit was detected by electrodes, allowing the Bluetooth device to "know" what numbers to dial.

In various experiments, subjects with varying degrees of training have shown between 70% and 85% accuracy when you try to dial a telephone number to 10 digits.

It is still a long way from the "brain interface" applied to the cell to travel, to make it even smaller, faster and cheaper, thus facilitating each daily practice for a mass audience.

 

14/04/2011

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Italian version of ReteArchitetti.it

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