Saturday 23 April 2011

Controlling The Mouse Cursor With Brain Implant











Why should lift a hand to control the mouse if You can use your brain? It is thought by researchers from the University of Washington when they published an article in the "Journal of Neural Engineering" two weeks ago, about how they plant sensors in the brain of the rat that allows the user to control the cursor with a network of intelligent talk (the speech), electrocorticographic.

Of course, we never see this. There are already some technology out there could make people control inanimate with thoughts such as a headset that able to read Your brain activity through the skull out, and also the ability exoskeleton robot control with your thoughts. While this is also a technology electrode like embed in your head to control a mouse, but none are as accurate as the discovery of this one, where the meeting using the area, however, speak on your brain to control the mouse.

Scientists use innovative techniques which they called electrocorticography (ECoG), allowing them to enter the electrical activity through the outer layer of celebral using electrodes. These electrodes are contained in a plastic pads that are embedded in the bottom of the skull and the rest on the surface of the brain. This invasive technique to give them more access to high-frequency waves that are more powerful that tell you more about your theory of volition. This allows specimen (people) to control the cursor with says the sound "e", "ah", "oo", "open", close", "eh", etc.

It sounds very interesting and a lot of people are impatient to wait until the technology is evolving quite well without any risk to health, but I really hope that they can develop the technology better so we don't have to say "e", "ah", "oo", and "eh" while control the mouse.

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