Model train controlled via brain-machine interface
Hitachi has successfully tested a brain-machine interface that allows users to turn power switches on and off with their mind. Relying on optical topography, a neuroimaging technique that uses near-infrared light to map blood concentration in the brain, the system can recognize the changes in brain blood flow associated with mental activity and translate those changes into voltage signals for controlling external devices. In the experiments, test subjects were able to activate the power switch of a model train by performing mental arithmetic and reciting items from memory.
The prototype brain-machine interface allows only simple control of switches, but with a better understanding of the subtle variations in blood concentrations associated with various brain activities, the signals can be refined and used to control more complex mechanical operations.
In the long term, brain-machine interface technology may help paralyzed patients become independent by empowering them to carry out actions with their minds. In the short term, Hitachi sees potential applications for this brain-machine interface in the field of cognitive rehabilitation, where it can be used as an entertaining tool for demonstrating a patient’s progress.
The company hopes to make this technology commercially available in five years.
[Source: Yomiuri Shimbun via Seihin World]
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That is an interesting technology but it seems to be working
based on activity in different parts of the brain that correspond
do different thoughts, but it is not really understanding the
actual thought. It seems to be a sophisticated type of
Wild Divine technology that is a biofeedback game that allows
people to control with increasing or decreasing their galvonic
skin response.
There is only one technology in the world that I know of that
enables a computer to communicate directly with the human
subconscious mind and that is a technology that I am involved with.
The subconscious mind doesn’t communicate in a linear, linguistically
driven language, it is what could be considered a “universal language”
and is common to every human regardless of thier spoken language.
We have deciphered this universal language that the subconscious mind
innately communicates to the body with and how it processes thought.
We can take simple Engish instructions and run it thought our
“universal translator” and the output is in a form that the subconscious
mind innately communicates in. These translated instructions can be
embedded into audio or video and the subconscious mind soaks them
up like a sponge. Instructions can be to alter different things in the body
overriding the genetic programming or the instructions can change habit
patterns. There are unlimited applications for our technology.
My “sales letter” page is here: http://www.subconscious.ws
The actual website that will send you to is: http://www.paths-123.com
There is a discussion group here: http://groups.yahoo.com
PATHS stands for Program Authoring the Human Subconscious
This technology literally allows us to upload millions upon millions of
instructions into the subconscious mind in a few minute period and
the subconscios mind holds this info in a “buffer”. Over about a
week or so, the brain will form the connections corresponding to these
instructions.
Sincrerely,
Aaron
Looks like the Honda BMI project for janken!
The first step toward man-made telekenesis… Just interface it with blue tooth and we will be changing channels at the speed of thought!
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