I’ve always said that touch screen technology has one major disadvantage: you have to move your hands (or fingers) for it to work and after a while, after throwing your hands into the air you become tired. The same goes for voice recognition: you can’t just talk to a computer 8 hours straight at your desk. For me the ultimate interface is thought control and it seems we’re not far-off from that, as Intel has just released info on an experiment they’re completed successfully with a subject controlling a computer with his mind.

    Now, before jumping from your chair, it’s not actual control, but the computer can recognize words the subject thinks of. It’s a start, as Intel used a magnetic resonance scanner to measure 20.000 points in the subject’s brain and compare electric levels with predefined ones. It’s a long way till we’ll actually be able to have a smaller device (like an electrode if you like) that once connected to our head  will give us the keyboard and mouse combo of the future. This is the kind of future I want!

    No, Homer was not the subject

    No, Homer was not the subject

    Source: Engadget