Intendix, The Brain Computer Interface Goes Commercial

I'm patiently waiting for computer assisted telepathy to go commercial. Imagine a bluetooth headset that reads your brain waves, and lets you write SMS-like messages by thought. And when you receive an SMS, it reads it back into your ear.

This is certainly a step in the right direction, but EEG are not the way forward in this field, imho.

The point of a brain-computer interface isn't to free your hands, or even to allow paralysed people to type, but to increase the bandwidth of communication (so you can interact a lot faster, whether through text or otherwise) and decrease the amount of attention required to use it (so you can use it while doing something else, without having to stop what you're doing to look at a keyboard).

I can't decide if the advert is being ironic (pretty girl, black and white, eye coloured, hair blowing in wind etc.) or just deliberate, and therefore corny :)

This is definitely the kind of thing tech should be focusing on, not developing yet another tactile input mechanism. The type of computer interaction described in the Otherland series, a "neural shunt" that intercepts the signals from the brain to motor neurons and from sensory neurons to the brain to create true VR, is the future.

One of the videos shows a QWERTY layout, the other two - alphabetically ordered letters: history is repeating itself.