Brain-Scan Devices are better input than keyboards

September 6, 2011 1:47 PM

Brain-Reading Devices Could become a primary input device replacing the Keyboard. "The basic idea is that whatever subject is on someone's mind — not just topics or concepts, but also emotions, plans or socially oriented thoughts — is ultimately reflected in the pattern of activity across all areas of his or her brain," said Matthew Botvinick, a psychologist at Princeton University's Neuroscience Institute. Brain-reading devices would likely first help paralyzed people such as physicist Stephen Hawking," Too bad this appeared in Fox News, however parts may be true.
posted by naight (3 comments total)

Not to knock the obvious and exciting theraputic/clinical applications of this tech, but... hands are brain-reading devices, really really amazing brain-reading devices, and I seriously doubt we will ever come up with any cortex-reading device that beats our actual appendages for fidelity and speed.

Also fuck fox news, and speculative science reporting in general.
posted by serif at 1:56 PM on September 6, 2011

Golly! New Technology that actually reads minds! What could possibly go wrong?
posted by tspae at 1:57 PM on September 6, 2011

i for one welcome...
posted by radiosilents at 1:59 PM on September 6, 2011