Sophie Curtis | The UK Sun | Source URL Six morbidly obese people have agreed to take part in a clinical trial of a brain chip that zaps them when they think about food. The chip, known as a responsive neurostimulation system (RNS), was originally developed by medical technology company […]
Pentagon: New Laser Tech Can Make People Hear Voice Commands
Futurism | Source URL Zappy Brain The Pentagon is working on a weapon that uses lasers and plasma to transmit sound files, even human speech, directly to individual people at great distances. That’s according to a story by the Military Times newspaper, which reports that military researchers are working on ways to use […]
US Military funds mind-reading helmet that may let soldiers TELEPATHICALLY control robots or drones and could even give the gift of sight to the blind
Ian Randall | The Daily Mail | Source URL US military research body DARPA is funding a project to create a mind-reading helmet that could let soldiers fly drones and control robots telepathically. Led by Texas-based researchers, the project will start by trying to read the vision of one person and […]
Improve your memory, treat dementia, alleviate depression and ease migraine with a ZAP to the brain
Thea Jordan | The Daily Mail | Source URL Though it may sound like something from science fiction, brain zapping — or neuro-electrostimulation, as it’s known — is already being used to treat a variety of ailments. Researchers at Boston University recently reported that zapping the brains of older people […]
A.I. Can Now Read Your Thoughts—And Turn Them Into Words and Images
John Nosta | Fortune | Source URL A recent article in Nature highlights a discovery that pushes the boundaries of our imaginations and challenges some of the very attributes that make us human. The piece details how artificial intelligence is creating speech by interpreting brain signals (and even offers an […]
‘They’re in our heads’: TV series tackles big-tech nightmare
AFP | Source URL Cannes (France) (AFP) – Channing Powell, the creator of the hit horror television series “The Walking Dead”, is not someone who is easily spooked. But Powell is scared, “terrified actually” of what big tech might be up to. And critics were too after watching her spine-chilling […]
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
Noam Cohen | Wired | Source URL For those of us who worry that Facebook may have serious boundary issues when it comes to the personal information of its users, Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments at Harvard should get the heart racing. Zuckerberg dropped by the university last month ostensibly as […]
Brain implants, AI, and a speech synthesizer have turned brain activity into robot words
MIT Technology Review Science Daily Source URL Neural networks have been used to turn words that a human has heard into intelligible, recognizable speech. It could be a step toward technology that can one day decode people’s thoughts. A challenge: Thanks to fMRI scanning, we’ve known for decades that when […]
New wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ prevents seizures with fine-tuned stimulation – and adapts itself in real time to the patient’s needs
The Daily Mail | Source URL A wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ could offer new treatment for neurological disorders. The WAND, developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering ‘fine-tuned’ treatments for patients […]
Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts
David Nield | Science Alert | Source URL Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts – and in this case, play a Tetris-style game. The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, […]
China Tracks Workers’ Brains; Now Tracking Children With “Smart” Tech Uniforms
Nicholas West | Activist Post | Source URL If there is any country on Earth that is most emblematic of the rising governance model that is Technocracy, it is China. The many pieces to this structure have included much of what we see emerging in the U.S. with pervasive surveillance, […]
Mind-reading BREAKTHROUGH: Human thoughts ‘watchable on TV screens’ says AI expert
HUMAN thoughts could be watchable on TV screens in as little as 10 years, an AI expert has sensationally claimed. Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson believes a helmet placed on a human head in a laboratory will be able to project their thoughts in real-time. He spoke after researchers claimed they […]