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Using your mood to operate a computer game

Using your mood to operate a computer game

Technology / Other

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...





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Towards zero training for brain-computer interfacing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

While invasive electrode recordings in humans show long-term promise, non-invasive techniques can also provide effective brain-computer interfacing (BCI) and localization of motor activity in the brain for paralyzed patients ...


Brain-computer link systems on the brink of breakthrough, study finds

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 13, 2007 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Systems that directly connect silicon circuits with brains are under intensive development all over the world, and are nearing commercial application in many areas, according to a study just placed online.


Scientists find molecule that regulates heart size by using zebrafish screening model

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using zebrafish, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified and described an enzyme inhibitor that allows them to increase the number of cardiac progenitor cells and therefore influence the size of the developing ...


Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone

Communicating person to person through the power of thought alone (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (25) | comments 8

New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought alone.


Self-Paced Brain-Computer Interface Gets Closer to Reality

Self-Paced Brain-Computer Interface Gets Closer to Reality

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (44) | comments 6

Using the human mind to control computers could lead to a wide range of applications, such as giving people with limited motion the ability to operate machines. However, translating thoughts into actions is ...


A baseball cap that reads your mind

A baseball cap that reads your mind

Technology / Engineering

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (67) | comments 4

It looks like an ordinary baseball cap. But when you put it on, the cap detects and analyzes the electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from your brain. It can even tell you if you’re getting too sleepy when driving ...


Mind over body: new hope for quadriplegics

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Around 2.5 million people worldwide are wheelchair bound because of spinal injuries. Half of them are quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down. European researchers are now offering them new hope thanks to groundbreaking ...


Brain-Computer Interface

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created Mar 02, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A research group led by Academy Professor Mikko Sams is developing a brain-computer interface, a device that transforms electrical or magnetic brain signals into commands a computer can understand. Equipment of this kind ...


A (virtual) smart home controlled by your thoughts

A (virtual) smart home controlled by your thoughts

Technology / Engineering

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Light switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing of the past thanks to brain-computer interface (BCI) technology being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks ...


Evolution education for K-12 teachers needs beefing up, says CU-Boulder professor

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A failure to grasp the fundamentals of biological systems may be leaving K-12 teachers and students vulnerable to claims by intelligent design creationists, new-age homeopaths and other "hucksters," according to a University ...



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