'Hola' at your brain: first brain-to-brain interface is a step towards digital telepathy
In a ground-breaking experiment scientists have managed to transmit words ('hola' and 'ciao') a distance of 5,000 miles without computer interfaces
Scientists have taken an important step towards achieving digital telepathy by sending information directly from one individuals brain to another without the use of any intermediary interfaces.
Subjects in the ground-breaking experiment were located 5,000 miles apart in India and France and fitted with caps monitoring electrical signals in the brain. They were then instructed to spell out the words ciao and hola in binary by envisioning different movements to represent 1s and 0s (moving their hands for 1 and their feet for 0).
The electrical signals associated with these movements were then recorded and transmitted, via the internet, directly into a receivers brain, with these transmissions used to stimulate their visual cortex so that the 1s and 0s appeared as points of light in different parts of their peripheral vision. The receiver then noted the binary and translated it back into words.
It is kind of technological realisation of the dream of telepathy, but it is definitely not magical," theoretical physicist and co-author of the study, published in PLOS One, told AFP. We are using technology to interact electromagnetically with the brain."
in full: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hola-at-your-brain-first-braintobrain-interface-is-a-step-towards-digital-telepathy-9714486.html
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Kakrafoon Kappa is the tenth planet of the Kakrafoon system. A planet comprised almost wholly of arid red desert, it is home to an annoyingly accomplished and enlightened race called the Belcerebons.
The irritatingly advanced and civilized lifestyle common on this planet, combined with the infuriating and inconsiderate silence which is one of the defining characteristics of the Belcerebon people, had predictably driven its surrounding planets completely mad with indignation.
This was obviously something for which they would not stand.
As a result, the people of Kakrafoon were sentence by Galactic tribunal to a curse of telepathy. Any thought, if not articulated and verbalized immediately, would thenceforward be broadcast for everyone to hear across Kakrafoon's smug neighbouring planets.
Jefferson23
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