http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/ Engadget Comments for "Thought helmets" could enable voiceless troop communication http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
Funny, always thought USA would be a part of GDI.]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/13/audeo-think-n-spell-neckband-allows-voiceless-phone-calls/
]]>Sep 22nd 2008 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/]]>Sep 22nd 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/I demand that they stop all research into the matter immediately!!! ]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/That's half the point right there; learning to use these things in a disciplied enough manner to function on the battlefield will automatically require learning the sort of mental control techniques that reduce susceptibility to panic and increase resistance to torture.
Plus, hey, telepathy.
It's a total two-fer...]]>Sep 23rd 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/It would seriously be a lot of fun !!!]]>Sep 22nd 2008 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
But from wars, great ideas pool downwards to the general public. Such as inventions from the space race.. which formed part of the cold war.]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
Not to mention that much of the data used in the space race came from SS concentration camps where horrific pressure-based tests were performed on prisoners.
Talk about an ethical dilemma...]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Oct 15th 2008 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
Do you *really* think these ideas came from videogames first?]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
No, thanks!]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Intergalactic Proton Powered Electrical Tentacle Advertising Droids!!!
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Intergalactic Proton Powered Electrical Tentacle Advertising Droids!!!]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
For a military level, it is nothing, not even for a contract to clean a bathroom, neither for a s&r.




]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
What happens if there is a glitch in the software/hardware - does the tank you are controlling suddenly start turning in circles at full speed, firing bullets in all directions?]]>Sep 22nd 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/I don't guess "chronosynclastic" or "infundibula" are among the 150 words this thing knows yet...]]>Sep 22nd 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
Basically I'm getting at a universal translator (ok, not universal, just inter-human. . . .or maybe not?). I'd be very interested to learn the biology/neuroscience side to this. Being a signals processing guy, I know that if we can filter past all the junk and get to the verbal brain waves, the rest is a cinch (relatively speaking). Any papers or articles on the subject would be greatly appreciated.]]>Sep 22nd 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/The subvocal models would have to be translated or transliterated. Training a thought helmet user to think subvisually would improve communication between echelons of dissimilar languages.

However, we'll have the universal translator by that time--no worries.]]>Sep 22nd 2008 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/
Wait...It just happened!]]>Sep 22nd 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Pens have a similar feature.
(No, no. I do see the significance of this tech. You don't have to reply with an explanation as to why this might be useful on the battlefield.)

Also: the guy's name is apparently "Dr. Elmar Schmeisser" ...which is only slightly less ridiculous.]]>Sep 22nd 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/thought-helmets-could-enable-voiceless-troop-communication/Sep 22nd 2008 6:35PM