British scientists develop 'brain to brain communication'
telegraph.co.uk
telegraph.co.uk
The first time I heard that people could operate robotic limbs with their thoughts, I thought: Two people could communicate almost telepathically, if they'd just hook up this brain reader to a Morse code transmitter/receiver.
Ultimately, this could lead to a little device that sits behind your ear, allowing communication from person to person, completely clandestinely. On the sending end, perhaps you just have to think about moving your fingers to type, and it picks up the letters from your brain waves. On the receiving end, it uses text-to-speech to read the message back into your ear.
“The next experiments are to get that second person
to be aware of the information that is being sent to them.
For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”
However, I do find a downside to this. I would have to be extra careful about my opinionated thoughts about others while I'm around them.
...what, I can't be the only one that takes the occasional break. Right?
“It’s not telepathy,” Dr James told the paper. “There’s no conscious thought forming in one person’s head and another conscious thought appearing in another person’s mind. “The next experiments are to get that second person to be aware of the information that is being sent to them. For that, I need to get my thinking cap on, so to speak.”
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