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A Baseball Hat That Can Read Your Mind

While this might look like an ordinary baseball hat, a closer look reveals that it has a bunch of electronics jammed into the back and a wire connecting it behind the ear of the wearer. That's your first tip-off that this hat will do more than shield your eyes from the sun and give you hat head. It's a hat that can actually read the EEG signals from your brain, able to tell when you're too sleepy to drive or, with a bit more work, allow you to do things like turn the TV on and off. It's much like other EEG readers that claim to allow you to control things with your brain, but this one is wireless and portable. [Pink Tentacle]

5:40 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Adam Frucci
1,566 views, 28 comments

Latest by Bokusatsu_Tenshi: @bosskev: When I read your post I though it was gonna be something like: "Sir! We get signal." "Main cap turn on!" "Hello Gentleman." "It's you" "first.duh" "Move zig move zig move zig move zig move zig..." more »

research

Monkey Brains Control Robo Legs...Through Internet

Researchers at Duke University have teamed up with the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto to get a monkey's brain to control a pair of robot legs through the internet. By mapping the monkey's brain signals while walking (through electrode measurements), Duke researchers were able to pinpoint the activation areas to specific leg movements. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Nov 23 2007
By Mark Wilson
1,540 views, 12 comments

a bit on the scary

US Soldiers to Get Brain Microchipped to Measure Vitals

rieceimg.jpegThe Department of Defense is pursuing a brain-implantable "biochip" that will measure/relay a soldier's vitals on the battlefield (and off). We don't know much from a technical standpoint about the chips, other than they are about the size of a grain of rice and will have the ability to, at minimum, measure oxygen levels in tissue. But the technological breakthrough involved has little to do with the electronics. More »

9:49 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Mark Wilson
6,378 views, 32 comments

brain scanner

Hitachi's Portable Mind Reader Shoots Lasers at Your Brain

When they're not busy making plasmas or announcing hard drives, the folks at Hitachi are out making mind readers. The one shown here is a 14-ounce headset that measures real-time brain data by shooting harmless lasers at your brain. Why would you wanna do that? More »

12:10 PM on Wed May 23 2007
By Louis Ramirez
1,873 views, 10 comments