Wow. This pseudo-telepathy could open the door to new forms of communications (for the disabled, in particular) and direct brain-computer interaction.
The first message sent? Hola. What will the second be? My bet's a Cialis commercial.
#2
Simfers
This is seriously incredible.
And if Internet has taught us anything, it'll be used for porn within two weeks.
#3
Bowielee
porn sent directly to your brain![DOUBLEPOST=1410300503,1410300402][/DOUBLEPOST]
#4
tegid
This is legitimately amazing BUT the headlines for it are so misleading. And this article, unless there is something I'm not seeing is also misleading as a whole.
So, what they actually did was sent the message in zeroes and ones. The sender could concentrate to either send a signal or not. When a signal was received on the other end, the second scientist saw, felt, or whatever, a flash of light. With that, they spent a while sending and not-sending and built 'hola' in one direction and 'ciao' in the other.
So just to make it clear, this is a LONG WAY from actually transmitting thoughts into other's peoples heads (and if that's even possible it may be a completely different technology). It is still a very nice step in human-computer interfacing.
