The First Successful Demonstration Of Brain-To-Brain Communication In Humans

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Yeah, I guess we expand the definition of telepathy to include Rube Goldberg Skype Cheesy

The 'emitter' could have just typed an instant message. The power of their mind would have electrically stimulated some nerves, which then activated some muscles in the hands, causing them to type on buttons with arbitrary abstract patterns drawn on top. Skip a few steps, and the 'receiver' makes some guesses about the meaning of those symbols, and thus 'reads' 'words'.

UP NEXT: researchers hack computer by probing motherboard with oscilloscope. Wink

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Quote from: Tusk on September 06, 2014, 04:02:28 PM

For the first time ever, neuroscientists have demonstrated the viability of direct — and completely non-invasive — brain-to-brain communication in humans. Remarkably, the experiment allowed subjects to exchange mentally-conjured words despite being 5,000 miles apart.

It's the neuroscientific equivalent of instant messaging. Two human subjects, one in India and one in France, successfully transmitted the words "hola" and "ciao" in a computer-assisted brain-to-brain transmission using internet-linked electroencephalogram (EEG) and robot-assisted image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technologies.

http://io9.com/technologically-assisted-telepathy-demonstrated-in-huma-1630047523

A penny for your thoughts. I loved one of the comments at the bottom "But don't be readin' my thoughts between 4 and 5. That's Willy's time!" I suppose this will add a new dimension to the term cyber sex Tongue

So we have an "Indian" talking in Spanish to a "Frenchman" talking in Italian.

Somehow I just got the picture of Dude Where's my Car in my head.

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Quote from: Tusk on September 06, 2014, 04:02:28 PM

For the first time ever, neuroscientists have demonstrated the viability of direct — and completely non-invasive — brain-to-brain communication in humans. Remarkably, the experiment allowed subjects to exchange mentally-conjured words despite being 5,000 miles apart.

It's the neuroscientific equivalent of instant messaging. Two human subjects, one in India and one in France, successfully transmitted the words "hola" and "ciao" in a computer-assisted brain-to-brain transmission using internet-linked electroencephalogram (EEG) and robot-assisted image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technologies.

http://io9.com/technologically-assisted-telepathy-demonstrated-in-huma-1630047523

A penny for your thoughts. I loved one of the comments at the bottom "But don't be readin' my thoughts between 4 and 5. That's Willy's time!" I suppose this will add a new dimension to the term cyber sex Tongue

Interesting, but this kind of tech has been around a while, but it is cool to see more experiments with it :-)

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For the first time ever, neuroscientists have demonstrated the viability of direct — and completely non-invasive — brain-to-brain communication in humans. Remarkably, the experiment allowed subjects to exchange mentally-conjured words despite being 5,000 miles apart.

It's the neuroscientific equivalent of instant messaging. Two human subjects, one in India and one in France, successfully transmitted the words "hola" and "ciao" in a computer-assisted brain-to-brain transmission using internet-linked electroencephalogram (EEG) and robot-assisted image-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) technologies.

http://io9.com/technologically-assisted-telepathy-demonstrated-in-huma-1630047523

A penny for your thoughts. I loved one of the comments at the bottom "But don't be readin' my thoughts between 4 and 5. That's Willy's time!" I suppose this will add a new dimension to the term cyber sex Tongue

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