This technology is amazing, although obviously not working flawlessly at the moment. It's going to make a big difference for the disabled.

Posted by: Johan | October 12, 2007 9:54 AM

This is really interesting & encouraging too. In fact, I also wrote about this in my article 'Rejoinder- an afterthought'. Only God knows what lies ahead!

Posted by: Amiya Sarkar | October 12, 2007 12:12 PM

Truly incredible.

Posted by: gerald spezio | October 13, 2007 7:03 AM

interesting

Posted by: massimiliano | October 14, 2007 2:26 AM

As cool as this seems, there is one small concern! If a person hooked up to that machine can have there brain signals read, translated into action, then what's to stop the reverse.

In other words, the computer/program sending commands to influence the person!

Posted by: GF | October 16, 2007 6:16 PM

What the?!!!? Won't that give you a headache afterwards?

Posted by: Kabalyero | October 16, 2007 11:50 PM

Only if youre married in SL. >.

Posted by: Poodle | October 17, 2007 12:27 PM

"If you supposedly intelligent people spent half as much time in the real world called life, you might think differently, and we would probably have a better world to boot. But on the upside at least you are going to be easy to corral for us mercs. You probably won't even hear us come in."

The real world is making the transfer into the abstract. Avatars are an inauspicious beginning of the NEU!

Imagine:

Total cognitive mapping into electronic meta-realities based on mass imaginative participation. The only two questions remaining:

1. If we all move into an electronic world, who will keep the electricity flowing?

2. Will it matter if the electricity stops?

Posted by: Lord Upright | October 18, 2007 5:25 AM

nubs, read nuromancer.
although the tech interface seems interesting, it sounds a litle iffy to me. The video needs better documentation. How does a technological device, know what your imagining, and the how does that impact bandwith, and refreshrates. All i have to say is chop factor on the lag, for crapy herystics, and poor designe. It might be a good thing, and it might not. "imagination" is a big word, and i can imagine alot. What about MMORPG's like wow, and other games, how would they work with these environments, and animations.

Posted by: Div | October 21, 2007 5:50 PM

It's a cool new application of very old findings:

1) motor areas of the brain are very conveniently mapped out (this is nothing new: look up the homunculus)

2) planning actions leads to increased activity in corresponding motor areas (this is nothing new: look up premotor cortex and mirror neurons)

3) it is possible to record gross changes in activity in broad areas of the brain pretty quickly (this is nothing new: see nearly every device for measuring evoked-potentials).

It's super super super cool that they're able to get something like this to work, but for the naysayers: yes, this is a plausible device. For the "z0mg the future is here" people: no, this is not really reading your mind.

Posted by: Brian | October 22, 2007 4:52 PM

Great stuff! You could see on the computer screen that it didn't run smootly yet, but neverteless it runned!

Posted by: Kris Verburgh | November 5, 2007 12:56 PM