Brain-Computer Interface Ready for Retail
Send messages to friends simply by using your brain.
Singularity Hub has a very lengthy article about the Intendix from Guger Technologies (g.tec), a system that allows the end user to type messages my mere thought. The system makes it possible by using an EEG cap that measures the user's brain activity. Supposedly the Intendix is rather simple to use after ten minutes of training.
The process works by first focusing on a grid of letters. When the user finds the desired letter, brain activity spikes and the system types the letter into the message. As users get accustomed to the method, typing will get easier, taking almost an entire second to mentally type an letter.
Intendix said that the device is capable of doing additional tasks outside messaging including converting text to speech, printing, copying, emailing, and triggering an alarm. The system has already entered its marketing phase, and is expected to retail for over $12,000 when it hits the market.
Check out the video below where the device was used to control a Second Life avatar.
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Caution: Don't use it while your girlfriend is near you.
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you should have a look at this
Obviously still a few bugs in the system hehe
I'b ben uisng it fur a whlie now and et wroks geart!
If you read the history of speech recognition interfaces you will see that it started out almost exactly the same way as this brain wave stuff. Speech recog. started out slow and difficult to use, requiring you to only say one letter or maybe one word at a time. The software was extremely expensive and required extensive calibration to work correctly but everyone said that it would dramatically improve with time and that it would be the interface that everyone will use in the future. Now, decades later, the software has gotten better but it is still pretty expensive, it still requires decently powerful hardware and in my experience it is still buggy and inaccurate. Here's to hoping that brain interfaces fair better.
if what you were typing was a lie? Would it come out as such?
Seems a bit impractical but cool none the less
If you read the history of speech recognition interfaces you will see that it started out almost exactly the same way as this brain wave stuff. Speech recog. started out slow and difficult to use, requiring you to only say one letter or maybe one word at a time. The software was extremely expensive and required extensive calibration to work correctly but everyone said that it would dramatically improve with time and that it would be the interface that everyone will use in the future. Now, decades later, the software has gotten better but it is still pretty expensive, it still requires decently powerful hardware and in my experience it is still buggy and inaccurate. Here's to hoping that brain interfaces fair better.
Me too!
I talk funky I guess (I used to have a nasty lisp, but now people just think I'm from a couple thousand kilometres away), and I can't use speech recognition at all. It sucks. =(
eventually it will play crysis!
Pretty soon, every wife will own one of these for their husbands as a home polygraph test.
Her: "Where were you, sweetie?"
Him: "Working overtime" ( ::LIE DETECTED:: Real answer: "Strip Club" ...BUSTED../result)
It looks kinda... slow.
why isnt it QWERTY?
I could see these being of huge use to disabled people, or people with "locked in syndrome".
I could see these being of huge use to disabled people, or people with "locked in syndrome".
Exactly. It's already useful for that alone.
At dco:
why isnt it QWERTY?
It doesn't make a difference what arrangement it uses, due to how the system functions.
Or, you could get this one that has been out for a couple of years now for $110.
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It doesn't make a difference what arrangement it uses, due to how the system functions.
oh i beg to differ. using a standard keyboard will be exactly the same to the brain as using one of these. aftger all, your brain has to send a signal to your finger as to where the key would be. a good example is when i try to type things out on my GPS, when im looking at the keys, which are in ABCD format, i couldnt zero in on where each character is with my eyes nearly as quick as i could with my QWERTY keyboard.
The severely disabled population would see the most benefits from this type of communication system, and it's possible that users' conditions would prevent them from learning how to type on a QWERTY style keyboard in the first place. It makes sense to present the letters in alphabetical order for this population.
Anyone who is familiar with, and able to type on a QWERTY keyboard would be better off using a real keyboard.