Tales from the bits

Dr. Cristopher James from the University of Southampton achieved for the first time Brain-to-brain communication. For his experiment one person using Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) transmitted thoughts, as a series of binary digits, over the internet to another person. The second person was attached also to an EEG. The PC would pick up the stream of binary [...]

Brain computer interface (BCI) can provide a way to help many people suffering from serious illnesses or injuries. In my previous post I mentioned some of the potential dangers of using BCI to monitor brain activity and reveal thoughts. This post adds to the positive aspect of BCI. It is a video from Stanford’s Neural [...]

Brain is one of the last frontiers standing. Only recently scientists have the technology to begin recording and documenting brain activity accurately. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a field that has great to offer in mankind if treated with caution. In my opinion there are many implications involving the ability to “read” and interpret brainwaves. [...]

From Wired News by Priya Ganapati. The first step towards a revolution on how humans interact with computers has started with the multitouch displays. Multitouch displays are screens that are sensitive to the pressure of more than one finger. The future of human-computer interfaces may involve using neurotransmitters to help translate thoughts into computing actions, [...]

Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) could someday help people with severe paralysis move their limbs, walk, and use a computer. A brain-computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain-machine interface, is a direct communication pathway between a human or animal brain (or brain cell culture) and an external device. (Wikipedia,2008) Paralysis is caused [...]