A research team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan has successfully displayed simple images produced in the human brain on a computer screen. Dream recorder anyone?
In a nutshell, the device converts electrical signals sent to the visual cortex into images that can be viewed on a computer screen. In their experiment, they showed test subjects the six letters in the word neuron and succeeded in reconstructing the word on screen by measuring their brain activity. As the technology progresses, it could be possible to “see” what people are thinking, what they dream about and record it for posterity. What do you think? Would that be awesome or scary as hell? All I know is that image weirds me out. [Yahoo Image via Pink Tentacle Thanks Roger!]
biggz
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 10:39 AMOur days of visualising people naked are numbered!
gtarone
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 10:55 AMSounds pretty scary to me, could be used by the wrong people to do the wrong things. I can see this being used on people to find out what they are thinking! Would be awesome to remember and record your own dreams on a lighter side tho!
Ahs
Friday, December 12, 2008 at 12:34 PMI call bs.
Jeremy Stiles
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 12:15 AMCould it be used in reverse though? To use cameras instead of eyes?
That would help the millions of blind people around the world..
Or coming from a nerd point of view, if cameras get good enough maybe xray vision?
codeman
Monday, August 10, 2009 at 5:22 AMwould be nice to record dreams, i wake up and remember some of it but i would like to see what’s all going on on a bigscreen tv and see why i did what and see all details