We'll be honest, we're always on the lookout for faster and better ways to annoy our Twitter followers with hopelessly mundane status updates, and this brain-control interface from the University of Wisconsin's Adam Wilson seems to be the perfect to get all Scoble on it with a minimum of effort -- you think it, you tweet it. Okay okay, we kid -- it's actually just the
usual brainwave-control setup you've seen everywhere, and the average user can only do ten characters a minute, but think of the potential, people. Soon everyone will know that you are "Walking on sidewalk, LOL" almost the second you think it, and all it will take is a mindreading cap paired with a sophisticated computers running an advanced signal processing algorithm connected to the massive infrastructure of the internet via a multibillion-dollar mobile broadband network. That's progress. Video after the break.
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posted Apr 20th 2009 10:48PM
Twitter will become Skynet.
I was thinking more Ghostdusters, the scene where Egon has Louis Tully put that metallic pasta colander bowl on his head and the image of the ZUUL Dog on the monitor...
machines can read your mind and you jump to skynet? Not the matrix, not big brother, not some crazy fishstick lovin' kanye west akira fantasy, but skynet?
*sigh*
I thought skynet was intelligent?
dear god, RUN.
RUN for your lives!!!
Most hilarious is the word they used to finish it all. "TWIT"; is there a hidden meaning here?
He does look like a TWIT!
Dear god, what have they created!
I know, that monitor is hideous! (kidding)
But now that I think about it, why does it seem like every mind reading device is hooked up to a beige display? Seriously, if you have the tech to detect brain activity, couldn't you afford a flatscreen?
@ TomTom2007
Where's the crayon shoved up the nose!?
what's up with the shitty dell monitor?
It's called spending scarce research dollars where they actually count.
fair enough.
Making a brain-twitter hook up "actually counts"?
For the likes of stephen hawkin yes yes it does
Dammit, this would be great for disabled people.
^^^That seems to be the argument for creating all kinds of robot/mind-control technology lately. I for one am not buying it.
Shouldn't it be tweet? Lol I don't use Twitter but when I hear "twit" I think of someone like the stereotypically clueless, annoying cheerleader
Exactly.
No, twit is the right word for it.
Really on the nose isn't it?
The correct word would be "Tweet".
I smell BS for funding $$$$
the reason why they use a big ass monitor is because there is a monkey inside it typing on a Netbook...
Hurray for government spending!
i think this thing should be named "Twat"
Consider this the first and last warning. That word is strictly for usage by Stephen Colbert. http://digg.com/television/Stephen_Colbert_I_Have_Twatted
....hmmmmmm, CAN THEY MAKE THE HELMET INTO A WIG.....WITH BLUETOOTH.....SO I CAN GET ONE FOR MY WIFE TO WARE IT.......WOULD BE A GREAT GIFT......SHE WOULD LOVE IT.........so would I.....hehehehehehe
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did you type that with an engadget-brain interface?
what with all the caps lock...
I'm not sure much interfacing with any kind of brains went on during the construction of that message...
The caption in the image is 1000 times better than anything engadget could have come up with, but it doesn't surprise me that this particular blogger felt the need to take a shot at it.
Dude, I went to law school at Wisconsin -- I would never "take a shot" at anything from there! Deep breaths, everyone else is smiling.
Unless the article changed, I'm not even sure what the hell you're talking about.
Anyone ready for this stand alone complex?
Ghost in the Tardy Red Cap, indeed.
No one is THAT interesting that I want to know that much about what they're thinking all the time
Lemme put on my twittercap and go to the bathroom....
"Helloooooo enchiladas, LAWL!!!" ^_^
U-DUB!! WOOT!
It seems like it would go a lot faster if they used a form of T9 with predictive input.
CRTs are definitely futuristic.
So will the sidekick LX have this feature? Because the world isn't ready to know every thought of teenagers.
What happens when you want to type a 9?
In the future, we won't need 9 anymore.
....TAYLOR.......WELL I AM EATING SOME COLD ICECREAM, WITH THE CAPPS ON, AND I GOT A BRAIN FREEZE, AND A BRAIN CAPP'S FREEZE........
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Count me in! I'd love an invite!!
crashes the comp also lol
Clearly this is an evil conspiracy plot at being able to know what everyone is doing at all times, just like mobile phones are used to identify every persons position. Fucking Big Brother!!
The future will be a scary place.
The U of W is no joke. I have worked with some very brilliant people from there. Yes this is a bit goofy looking but the concept is very intriguing........."Neo you should have taken the blue pill...."
I give up.
Okay it might have been quicker just typing that, but god this is a step in the right direction!
The Holo-Band of Caprica and the other 11 colonies is on it's way!
Of all the things...Twitter?
This thing isn't reading your mind, it's detecting brainwave changes.
The concept is simple really.
Notice all the letters flash in rows.
You're focused on "R", it's white. The rows flash. When the row with "R" flashes, it's unexpected by you, the sudden color change, that is, thus your brainwaves shift a bit.
It detects the change, and records letters MNOPQR since they are all in the row. Then it flashes them vertically. When "R" flashes again, your brainwave changes. It records FLRX4-TWIT, compares them, and R is the one that came up in both. Then it does a few more flashes to make sure.
So it's not actually reading minds, just detecting brainwaves, which is nothing new.
I think they just got lazy and hooked up the crt because its easier to interface. And this is some bitchin' signal analysis if it is actually real.
interesting idea but the problem is, that about 30 % of people would soon womit or got an epileptic atack ... Such fast blinking is very unhealthy, and faster is worse, so you cannot faster the proces to be quick enough for normal speed "typing" for most of users. I believe more in systems, where you concentrate on one character and the brain monitor detect it. Or FAR SIMPLER method for such stupid action as reading the text - monitoring the eye position. With eye montior you can "type" quite fast (about up to 60 chars/minute), and you need generaly any simple camera for few bucks and a software. But yes, i understand, this is just a technology demo, with no real usage.
Twitter is Shit.