Mind reading gets closer to real thanks to Canadian scientists

Hate to break it to you, but that clairvoyant you've been paying daily to read you fortune cookies while blindfolded actually isn't some sort of medium. Tough to swallow, we know. That said, researchers at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital are getting closer to equipping entrepreneurial individuals with the tools they need to read minds. By measuring the intensity of near-infrared light absorbed in brain tissue, scientists were able to decode a person's preference for one of two drinks with 80 percent accuracy, all without a single minute of training on the human's behalf. This research gives promise to finding out true feelings of those who can't speak or move due to physical limitations, though there's no word on how close it is to becoming viable outside of a lab. As an aside, we hear Professor X is pretty perturbed.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2009 9:52AM]

Xander (thinking): What am I gonna do? I think about sex all the time! Sex! Help! Four times five is 30. Five times six is 32. Naked girls. Naked women! And naked Buffy! Oh, stop me!

Damn good episode.

[Konrad Posted Feb 12th 2009 12:39PM]

Mentok approves.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2009 12:18AM]

ooooooOOOOOOOooooooo.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2009 12:47PM]

Molto fico!

[SiXiam Posted Feb 12th 2009 1:34PM]

So Professor X just got the technology to be able to kill all of us...

Sheesh....Glad he's a good a guy...

[NaJaKwa Posted Feb 12th 2009 3:12PM]

sorry, let me elaborate for the stump in the room. under fair use, you can, and this use is an example of that.

[Shawn Posted Feb 12th 2009 5:45PM]

Hey wow they got 80 percent accuracy with a question that they have a 50 percent chance of guessing the correct answer! Pretty good odds! If this thing actually does what it says it does that is pretty scary...amazing; but scary.

[Windhawk Posted Feb 12th 2009 9:10PM]

Blame it on Canada

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2009 2:42AM]

"This research gives promise to finding out true feelings of those who can't speak or move due to physical limitations"

and to spy on people's feeling.

I'm sure when this mind reading tool is ready, some politicians have already owned a few of them! It's disgusting!

[rudolfo2 Posted Feb 13th 2009 2:45AM]

All SCI)FI we were watching through the years will became sooner or latter reality.Just a matter of time.