A group of scientists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, said that they may be really close to making a machine that helps translate brain signals into words, an important get through that will allow severely paralyzed people to be able to communicate their thoughts clearly.The scientists than took the experiment one step further by playing all ten brain patterns at the same time. In this case they were able to pick out the correct word between 28-48 percent of the time - An extremely encouraging result and a huge improvement over the current way of communicating that call for either the blinking of eyes or movement of hands. Now that they have proof of concept, the team is going to work on getting the technology better - by probably rising the size of the electrodes, so that they can get better signals. They hope to have a working example ready in a year or two.
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Its pretty awesome, unless of course the device falls into the wrong hands - Like your parents or teachers. Now there's a scary thought! I would probably use this on my friend or people in school, so funny. :)
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