Ah, good, somebody is working on making brain chips so we can control computers by thinking about them. And that somebody is not a mad robo-obsessed scientist, but Intel, the commercial chip giant, making it seem more likely that chips will be arriving in a brain near you in the not-too-distant future.
According to ComputerWorld, Intel researchers in Pittsburgh told journalists that brain implants are harnessing human brain waves to operate computers, television sets and cell phones… letting you surf the internet, manipulate documents, and so on.
By learning the patterns and electronic signals that certain words or pictures make in your brain, a chip could be programmed to recognise them and could then send that information to a computer.
So thinking the word "water" could be the equivalent of typing it.
Still a distance off, scientists plan to make external headsets first before working on developing a microprocessor that could fit in your head.
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