Machines Like Us

Admit it: you've always wanted a brain-computer interface. You relish the idea of controlling your Mac with thoughts alone; maybe someday an electric wheelchair, a mechanical arm, or even your car. Your chance might come sooner than you think.

The evolution of the computer-human interface may seem to be rooted in the infernal keyboard and its recent travelling companion, the mouse, but much work is being done in the areas of virtual worlds, voice recognition, handwriting recognition and gesture recognition to give us a new paradigm of computing. It now appears we are on the edge of another brave new virtual world—the direct interface between the brain and the computer is here.

Now, a German company called Guger Technologies has taken the technology out of the lab and into the real world with a complete BCI kit, and amazingly, there’s also a kit for a pocket PC—a super-low-weight biosignal recording system used to measure the EEG and perform the data processing.

Read full story at GizMag.