Brain computing was still understandable, but using the brain to read another person’s mind, gosh, that’s freakish. Yes, it is a thought too elusive for us, but researchers in the UK with help of electrodes, computers and internet connectivity, have managed a significant leap in brain-to-brain communication.
We have been aware of the Brain Computer Interface and we’ve seen robots, limbs and wheel chairs being controlled by the brain and delivered upon to function accordingly. But here the BCI has been twigged even further to show person-to-person communication made possible by true brain-to-brain interfacing. The process of B2B communication has been demonstrated by Dr. Christopher James from the University of Southampton, sending a series of ones and zeros, using BCI over the web, letting the other brain comprehend it. The communicators have their heads hooked with electrodes, which recognize brain’s movement, in parts, as ones and zeros. These signals are then transmitted over the web to the other person’s PC, similar to the transfer of data by computers, flashing LEDs there at two different frequencies for ones and zeros. Converting this visual information back into binary the brain-to-brain communication is successfully realized.
Via: ScienceDaily/PopSci
