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Falcata

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From: Michiana

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 501

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Mentally controlling your computer!

Can anyone confirm if the OCZ OCZMSNIA Neural Impulse Actuator works under Linux?

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

Man, I don't know why but I'm terrified of this kind of technology...

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

OOH!

I LIKE this kind of technology!

*want*

The EPOC actually looks better, btw - it can detect thoughts.

*I* personally want to know if Emotiv are gonna support Linux

-dav7

Last edited by dav7 (2008-09-22 06:51:48)

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SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

This looks awesome. Computing for lazy people. On a more serious note, my father has a friend who broke his neck playing rugby many years ago and is now paralysed from the neck down. This is the sort of thing that he would be very interested in.

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

Just bringing this up because I had a potentially $2347865289375287534 idea:

AIs are really dumb. Why not use (slightly - ever so slightly - more advanced) BCIs to read exactly the user's brainwaves while they talk, adding more meaning to the message for the computer and possibly conveying better "state"?

-dav7

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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

It will be amazing to have one device like those, but combined with some sort of wifi thingy, so you can actually "think" what pc to control, and control any pc "in-range" just thinking

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mentallaxative

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-07-14

Posts: 134

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Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

It would be awesome--just don't think any unsavoury thoughts when you have company over....

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

I could also see a bad downside to all this mind controlling a computer stuff. Suppose your partner walked past in some sexy outfit while your reading the daily news on the pc, you go wow and think of nasty thoughts and BAM! they see you looking at po*n sites. Try explaining that.

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

So, no one else thinks that the ability to read people's minds is kind of frightening ?
How is it done anyway ?

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

It's basically just measuring resistance, I think. Or something. It's the same sort of equipment used to do heart measurements, with about $19,750 taken off the price.

And here's why it isn't scary: it can't read our thoughts. We haven't gotten there yet. It can only detect and measure alpha, beta, theta and delta waves, whatever they are, and some basic processing has the systems "understanding" basic spatial thoughts like "move left" "move right" and visualizations like "make invisible". Think of BCIs as they are now, like you would a programming language, except for the brain - you have to learn IT, not the other way around.

The computers aren't gonna kill us, at least not for another few years

-dav7

Last edited by dav7 (2008-10-12 12:04:23)

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Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: Mentally controlling your computer!

moljac024, I completely agree!!! Combine the Web 3.0 with this stuff and ... This is not a world to live in! Really, this sucks like hell, poor new born kids, they grow up in a world of complete insanity!!!