Brain to Brain interface

[Aerozord]

Researchers have successfully remotely sent signals from one human being to control the body of another. Specifically "press the space key" and the receiver did so. Now before people cry mind control the researchers said you cant do this on an unwilling participant. While not detailing why its reasonable to conclude that your conscious mind would override the signals. This is more for teleoperation than manipulation as well as proof of concept for other brain-to-brain interfaces such direct communication.

Here is the video of the experiment

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

shit, beat me to it. This is awesome and I can only imagine the applications that'll come of it as this gets improved.

GOGO WASHINGTON, WOOOH!

[Menarker]

While mind control might not be a thing, I could see potential abuse of ad spamming in the future when this gets in the hands of corporations.

As an implant, I'd be firmly against it, but as a removable gear like a head-set or something to that effect, I'd be curious to see how it works.

In particular, I wonder if this could be a potentially be the new "hearing aid", by allowing messages, sounds and so to be directly sent to the brain, bypassing the need to try to amplify sound through the damaged ear. By sending it directly to the brain, it'd the improved cochlear implant (hopefully without the implant part.)

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Menarker

While mind control might not be a thing, I could see potential abuse of ad spamming in the future when this gets in the hands of corporations.

I am not too worried about that. Marketing is moving away from shotgun marketing where it just floods people with ads with a "net cast wide" ideology. Spam is called such because it is merely unwanted junk, doesn't help corporations much since no one cares and if anything dissuades customers. We are moving more towards targeted advertisements where there is a heavy effort to deliver ads the consumer wants to see.

By the time this is available we will probably be at the point of contextual advertisements so they are more like alerts of products and demos then mail about penis enlargement.

Originally Posted by Menarker

As an implant, I'd be firmly against it, but as a removable gear like a head-set or something to that effect, I'd be curious to see how it works.

If I was designing an implant I'd give it the equivalent of 'airplane mode' where you can just completely shut off access. In fact I think the implant would have to have that if you want users to ever go on a plane.

My money is on this being part of a full suite when its commercially available. Like, this implant includes brain to brain communication, direct access to the web, and full augmented reality support.

[akaSM]

My hips are hand is moving on their its own.

Will a tin foil hat protect me against this sorcery?

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

I know this is news and all, but come on, this has to be posted.