Forget your mouse - just think and click

[gi7omy]

"...Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.

 

The "brain-machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals..."

 

report here

 

Now is that really being lazy or what?

[cdanteek]

I liked the China's Massive Dam Changing Weather story better, on The Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River.

 

So thanks for the link.

 

cd

[malatekid]

"...Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.

 

The "brain-machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals..."

 

report here

 

Now is that really being lazy or what?

That's an interesting technology. And the possible benefits from it.

 

"The technology could one day replace remote controls and keyboards and perhaps help disabled people operate electric wheelchairs, beds or artificial limbs.

Initial uses would be helping people with paralyzing diseases communicate even after they have lost all control of their muscles."

[gi7omy]

Maybe when they can shrink it to something slightly better than the equivalent of a bag of sugar strapped to your head.

 

It is a start in that direction tho