Samsung Mind Control

This piece describes R&D work Samsung and the University of Texas-Dallas are conducting which, some day, would allow an EEG cap to feed brain activity into a tablet device, thus allowing direct communication.  Several applications for this brain-computer interface are mentioned, but the medical use of this technology raises lots of possibilities—from language translation, to communicating with patients who are unconscious, to monitoring any kind of neurological problem.  MORE WITH VIDEO

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