“Some hobbyist hackers have rigged up an iPhone 4S to collect brain wave patterns from some simple ECG pads, translate them into synthesized speech, which is in turn pumped through the 3.5 mm headphone jack, and recognized by Siri as a usable command,” Simon Sage reports for IntoMobile.
“All you have to do is think your command, and your iPhone 4S will hop to it,” Sage reports. “So far, the guys at Project Black Mirror have been able to link 25 brain wave patterns to specific Siri commands.”
Sage reports, “Of course, right now the project is a bulky Arduino test board hooked up to a Macbook, which also occupies the headphone jack, and makes the user look like he belongs in Clockwork Orange, but these guys are putting up a Kickstarter page shortly to get funding and turn this thing into a real product.”
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Heres to the Crazy Ones!
It’s just a matter of time before the reverse is true. And I for one welcome our Apple overlords…
No need to be that dramatic ;D Thank you though! 😀
Steve Jobs and Apple & Co has sparked the renaissance of the computer and human/earhly life.
Think Sirious!
make that ‘Think Siri(Us)’
Uh hahaha
make that ‘Think Siri(US)’
until location works outside the US
🙂
1 truth
fscking awesome
Why?
Because it can be done! And it’s fun 🙂
Um… excuse me. I’m no doctor, but aren’t these EEG (electroencephalogram) pads used for brain activity monitoring, not ECG (electrocardiogram) pads used for heart monitoring?
Ouch! Ah yeah, I’d say it’s phony. But good try.
Electrocardiogram is usually abbreviated EKG.
Don’t know why, but it is.
So, they’re going to use Kickstarter to raise funds to make neural caps that interface with Siri?
though technically possible, I don’t believe these folks have the skills to do it
I think it is fake and audio is piped in and unrelated to what he is thinking
Interesting point
Thats awesome. 🙂
Love the “Matrix interface” visible at the top left of the laptop screen.
it’s only a joke!!!
😉
Those flashing red-LEDs…er…what do they do…? Are they there to make it look real or fake…?
Finally a way to find out what the girl really is thinking.
Boiled down to its essentials, I believe the long-range mission of Apple Inc. is to integrate (or saturate) computing power into the lives of people, chiefly by offering devices of maximum utility, with a ‘natural’ interface between user and computer.
If this is correct, then enabling a user to command a computer through his/her thoughts represents Apple’s ultimate interface metaphor — its final destination, which may take a generation to attain.
good article
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The only problem is you have to think in Russian. Oh, and it requires Firefox.