Directly wireless communication of human minds via non-invasive brain-computer-metasurface platform - eLight
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), invasive or non-invasive, have projected unparalleled vision and promise for assisting patients in need to better their interaction with the surroundings. Inspired by the BCI-based rehabilitation technologies for nerve-system impairments and amputation, we propose an electromagnetic brain-computer-metasurface (EBCM) paradigm, regulated by human’s cognition by brain signals directly and non-invasively. We experimentally show that our EBCM platform can translate human’s mind from evoked potentials of P300-based electroencephalography to digital coding information in the electromagnetic domain non-invasively, which can be further processed and transported by an information metasurface in automated and wireless fashions. Directly wireless communications of the human minds are performed between two EBCM operators with accurate text transmissions. Moreover, several other proof-of-concept mind-control schemes are presented using the same EBCM platform, exhibiting flexibly-customized capabilities of information processing and synthesis like visual-beam scanning, wave modulations, and pattern encoding.
  • @Zerush
    2•2 years ago

    Agree, I’m just against making it even easier for them. If this technology exists, it won’t be long before government forces will also use it ‘to fight crime’. Although this technique can be a blessing for people with disabilities, it will not take away from the other. It is in most of the good inventions like this, that they also led to abuses. and this can also be a blessing for the secret services, according to them, also to do good, avoiding waterboarding and electroshocks.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      2•2 years ago

      Every technology can be abused in some way. I think it’s a red herring to focus on technology when the problems are inherently sociological.

      • @Zerush
        1•2 years ago

        Naturally, also a non-stick pan can serve to sink someone’s skull. But I think that the risk in an invention that allows access to people’s thoughts runs much more risk of being abused, for this it is too succulent for certain groups.