In the test, the computer scored 10 out of 10 for a perfect grade. But researchers around the world are striving to miniaturize the technology, and Pomerleau is hopeful the equipment could one day be small enough to be built into a hat. If and when the system becomes more consumer friendly, Pomerleau believes that people could use it to command computers or robots through one's thoughts. Designed to showcase products currently under development, the Tech Heaven event also pulled the curtain on a number of other potential new technologies from Intel PDF.
Intel's Light Peak is a thin, flexible, optical fiber cable--about the width of a human hair--that could potentially transfer data at up to 10 billion bits per second. As an example, Light Peak could download the entire contents of the Library of Congress terabytes of data--in just 17 minutes.
Intel's Understand Me project could turn your smartphone into a true personal assistant and even a mobile life coach. No-brainer: The XWave allows users to control on-screen objects with their minds as well as train their brains to control attention spans and relaxation levels.
The device - that could confuse Luke Skywalker himself - is the latest in the field of emerging mind-controlled games and devices and works via a headset strapped around the user's forehead, plugging into the iPhone jack.
A state-of-the-art sensor within the device can then read the user's brainwaves through the skull, converting them into digital signals before displaying them in various colours on the iPhone screen. State of the art: A sensor within the device can then read the user's brainwaves through the skull, converting them into digital signals before displaying them in various colours on the iPhone screen. And as the mind focuses on a particular task the graphics change, indicating the user's level of concentration or relaxation.
The high-tech sensor was developed by innovations giant PLX Devices using technology that has for years been used by doctors to treat epilepsy and seizures in patients.
Brain train: As the mind focuses on a particular task the graphics change, indicating the user's level of concentration or relaxation. He said: 'The human brain is the most powerful, complex thing in the universe, and for the first time, we're able to harness its amazing power and connect it to everyday technology.
Brain-training exercises include levitating an on-screen ball for a certain amount of time or changing a colour by relaxing the brain in a bid to maximise the brain's attention span. Incredibly, another app, called XWave Tunes allow users to connect with each other through the type of music that most stimulates their brainwaves. The company says it is working on other ways in which the futuristic technology can be applied such as playing games through the mind, controlling the lights at home and even choosing what music to listen to on an iPod depending on the user's mood.
Its designers claim the possibilities are endless, whether it is for relaxation, brain training, entertainment, games, social networking, sports or sleep. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
Boris says sorry to the Queen over lockdown-busting No10 leaving do as she mourned Philip: Staff 'filled suitcase with booze and broke Wilfred's swing' on eve of Duke's funeral. Argos AO. The device also provides bone conduction output. That means you could make requests of a virtual assistant and get results audible only to you, all without the knowledge of people sitting right in front of you. Also, it merely takes an existing behavior — spoken and audible interaction with a virtual assistant — and makes it silent and invisible, thereby increasing the range of situations where one could use a virtual assistant.
A video shows just how well this could work. Of course, the device itself looks ridiculous. Instead of understanding the words a person is subvocalizing, it can detect what that person is hearing, with brain activity alone. The researchers took advantage of a kind of epilepsy treatment whereby electrodes are implanted directly on the surface of the brain.
Scientists used those electrodes for a second purpose, which was to monitor brain waves in the auditory cortex. They took that data and used algorithms to decode the specific speech sounds as they were being heard by the subject. Even Facebook has a mind-reading project in the works. One example is to turn down the volume of music based on the mental activity of being irritated by loud noise.
A recent University of Toronto Scarborough study was able to roughly re-create faces shown to subjects based on their brain activity. Thirteen subjects were shown faces.
Now reality is catching up with fantasy. In the past year, AI experts in China, the US and Japan have published research showing that computers can replicate what people are thinking about by using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI machines — which measure brain activity — linked to deep neural networks, which replicate human brain functions. While headlines around the world have screamed out that AI can now read minds, the reality seems to be more prosaic.
Computers are not yet able to anticipate what we think, feel or desire. Most of the research so far has been aimed at deciphering images of what subjects are looking at or, in limited circumstances, what they are thinking about. The technology, the researchers say, is able to understand complex events, expressed as sentences, and semantic features, such as people, places and actions, to predict what types of thoughts are being contemplated.
The outcomes of such research promise much that could benefit humanity. The developments show we have come a long way since the fictional Professor Quatermass used a mind-reading machine to interpret the thoughts of Martians.
Many, including serial tech entrepreneur Elon Musk , are excited by the opportunities such technologies could bring to the lives of people with disabilities, but researchers and governments have yet to spell out how they can ensure these are used to benefit the human race rather than harm it.
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