Technology - 3D printing powered by thought. Imagine if you could print objects just by thinking about them.
Camila Ruz visits one company to see whether this is far-fetched dream or a real possibility. It’s definitely not a bird. Nor is it a plane. The garish orange piece of plastic, small enough to hold in the palm of a hand, could pass for a missing limb of a toy tyrannosaurus. The future of brain-computer interfaces revealed. You may already be having basic conversations with your smartphone, desktop PC, games console, TV and, soon, your car, but such voice recognition is – in the scientific community, at least – firmly in a folder market 'dumb' technology.
New ways of controlling consumer electronics goods with both basic voice and gestures are suddenly common, but we could soon be operating computers not by barking out instructions or waving, but purely by thinking. Research into the long researched brain-computer interface (BCI) – also known as the 'mind-machine' interface – is becoming so advanced that it's set to create a whole new symbiotic relationship between man and machine. DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras to create the ultimate military threat detection system.
After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual processing algorithms into a cybernetic hivemind.
Called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), it will be used in a combat setting to significantly improve the US Army’s threat detection capabilities. There are two discrete parts to the system: The 120-megapixel camera, which is tripod-mounted and looks over the battlefield (pictured below); and the computer system, where a soldier sits in front of a computer monitor with an EEG strapped to his head (pictured above).
Images from the camera are fed into the computer system, which runs cognitive visual processing algorithms to detect possible threats (enemy combatants, sniper nests, IEDs). In short, CT2WS taps the human brain’s unsurpassed ability to recognize objects. Now read: Changing the world: DARPA’s top inventions. Reading the World through the Skin and Ears: A New Perspective on Sensory Substitution. Comparison of consumer brain–computer interfaces. This is a comparison of brain-computer interface devices available on the consumer market.
Comparison[edit] Open-source projects[edit] Emokit is an open-source Python library for reading out sensor data from the EPOC (Emotiv Systems) by Cody Brocious. NeuroSky Mindwave Mobile Myndplay Bundle. Google Glass - will we love it or hate it? 5 May 2013Last updated at 20:16 ET By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter The glasses have a small camera and display built in.
EEG to help prevent strokes; petting a cat and the prefrontal cortex; beatboxing – this weeks News Roundup! This week in our news roundup: the Discovery Channel highlights how the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute is using single unit recording to achieve greater accuracy and control with brain computer interfaces; an EEG headset to help prevent strokes has been developed in Israel; measuring pleasure stimuli using a consumer EEG headset from neurofeedback company MyndPlay; and beatboxing as seen through an MRI. 1// Using single unit recording to achieve greater control with a BCI The team who helped a woman lift a cup using a brain computer interface, at the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute, are now working on a second study that uses single unit recording.
Technology - 3D printing powered by thought. Eunoia. Reading the World through the Skin and Ears: A New Perspective on Sensory Substitution. EEG to help prevent strokes; petting a cat and the prefrontal cortex; beatboxing – this weeks News Roundup! Introducing Touchy, A Human Camera from Japan. Touchy is a camera that is placed on one’s head and only takes photos when the person wearing the camera is physically touched.
Every time a person makes contact with the person wearing the camera head, it will open its shutter like eye-holes and take photos. If the person keeps holding on to the touch of that person, then the camera will take a shot every ten seconds. Hearing Through Your Skin, and Other Adventures in Sensory Substitution. We’re entering a very interesting stage of human history right now where we can start importing technology to enhance our natural senses or perception of the world.
So as it stands now, as biological creatures, we only see a very small strip of what's going on. Obviously, the infinitely large and the infinitely small - our brains aren't even wired to be able to understand that. But even on the space scales that we live at, we don't see most of what's going on. So, for example, take electromagnetic radiation, there's a little strip of that that we can see and we call it visible light. InteraXon - Thought-controlled computing - Interaxon. Highlights of NeuroGaming 2013.
Google Glass - will we love it or hate it? Sensors and Actuators A: Physical - A 3D printed dry electrode for ECG/EEG recording. A Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST), Faculty of Engineering, University of Ghent, 914A Technologiepark, B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium b Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, 185 De Pintelaan, 9000 Ghent, Belgium c Faculty of Applied Engineering Sciences, CPMT Research Group, University College Ghent, Voskenslaan 362, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium d Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University Ghent, Technologiepark 903, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium Received 4 May 2011 Revised 8 December 2011 Accepted 8 December 2011 Available online 17 December 2011.
2010 Garguilo Clinical Neurophysiology.pdf. Dry electrodes - gtec's newest development. Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream. Cadeau CreativeMuse, a lightweight, wireless headband, can engage with computers, iPads and smartphones.
Last week, engineers sniffing around the programming code for Google Glass found hidden examples of ways that people might interact with the wearable computers without having to say a word. Among them, a user could nod to turn the glasses on or off. Google Glass Could Make Snapping Pics as Easy as Winking. Google Glass will include more features than what meets the eye. Samsung’s (Very) Early Attempts At Thought-Controlled Mobile Devices. Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones are controlled by touch, gesture, eye movement—and your mind. Well, not exactly that last bit. At least, not yet. Perhaps half in the name of science, half for publicity, Samsung’s teamed up with Roozbeh Jafari (University of Texas, Dallas assistant professor and wearable computing expert) to translate thoughts into common computing tasks using an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap.
The EEG cap fits snugly onto the users’ head and uses electrodes to pick up the brain’s faint electrical signals. Forget your password: The future is 'passthoughts' (Phys.org) —Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password, according to School of Information researchers. A new study explores the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication as a substitute for passwords. The project was led by School of Information professor John Chuang, along with Hamilton Nguyen, an undergraduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Charles Wang, a first-year I School MIMS student; and Benjamin Johnson, formerly a postdoctoral scholar at the I School.
Chuang presented the team's findings this week at the 2013 Workshop on Usable Security at the Seventeenth International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security in Okinawa, Japan. Since the 1980s, computer scientists have proposed the use of biometrics for computer authentication. All that has changed, though, with recent developments in biosensor technologies. New consumer-grade EEG devices. Brain-computer interfaces inch closer to mainstream, raising questions. Non-invasive brain-to-brain interface: links between two brains. “Stop the Cyborgs” launches public campaign against Google Glass. Less than two weeks ago, Seattle’s 5 Point Cafe became the first known establishment in the United States (and possibly the world) to publicly ban Google Glass, the highly anticipated augmented reality device set to be released later this year.
The “No Glass” logo that the café published on its website was developed and released (under a Creative Commons license) by a new London-based group called “Stop the Cyborgs.” The group is composed of three young Londoners who decided to make a public case against Google Glass and other similar devices. A workout for your self-control: Jordan Silberman at TEDxFlourCity. Quasar USA. Video: Mind reading system may help us drive better. We like to think we have control over our thoughts in real time, instantaneously.
The moment we think of doing something is the very same moment the neurons in our brains start firing, creating that intention. Google reveals tech specs for Glass. Google Glass: how it works (infographic) The blind rock climber who sees with his tongue. A tablet controlled by your brain. A Samsung researcher tests an EEG-controlled app on a tablet (credit: Samsung) Samsung is researching how to bring mind control to its mobile devices with the hope of developing ways for people with mobility impairments to connect to the world, MIT Technology Review reports. Home - Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface. Scientists Create ‘Star Trek’ Visor, Helps Blind See.