Comments on: Will Power Operates Gramaphone

By: aztrozon

aztrozon — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:21:17 +0000

Awesome! And stylish too!

By: Mike Brisendine

Mike Brisendine — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:13:55 +0000

Oh, I thought the article was “Wii Power Operates Gramaphone”. Nevermind.

By: fluffy

fluffy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:05:26 +0000

Of course those EEG experiments aren’t about action-at-a-distance but actually measuring nerve impulses, which is perfectly legitimate. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that if the 1932 article were written today, the author wouldn’t be nearly so skeptical, and the readers would believe every word of it.

By: glindsey

glindsey — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:25:21 +0000

Even further than that, recent research has been done in using EEGs to measure the areas of the brain related to human speech and determine how different vowel sounds “look”. These data can then be used to drive a vocal synthesizer, to allow people with “locked-in syndrome” (conscious mind functioning, but unable to move or speak due to a brain stem injury) to communicate again.

The work is still extremely preliminary, but if it succeeds it will be an incredible breakthrough — literally a cyborg voicebox!

By: Casandro

Casandro — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:33:26 +0000

Incidentially there was actually a simmilar experiment that worked.
They analyced a simple EEG and splitted it up into it’s frequency bands. Now the person can train to get into a certain state of mind, i.e. get excited at will. An Apple][ displays a box moving from the left to the right with some positions marked. If the person gets excited at the right point in time, the EEG registers it and the computer knows what to do, switching a relay to turn something on and off.

It’s been done by the WDR Computerclub somewhere in the 80s.