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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Design

Brainwave Sofa Turns Your Brilliance Into Butt Cushions

2:20AM Mark Wilson | After capturing just three seconds of brain activity through EEG, designers Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen can carve a snapshot of your thoughts into a block of foam. More »
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Science

A Wheelchair Controlled By Man’s Mighty Will

3:10AM Mark Wilson | We’ve seen a few instances of mind-controlled wheel chairs, and now researchers from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, offer us yet another amazing prototype. More »
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Science

Your Brain to Your Hands: I Can Twitter Without You

2:10AM John Mahoney | Stupid hands, always getting the glory for all of the hard work that originates with me. Now, fingers, feel your tragic irrelevance as I tweet with electric elegance without your pitiful clumsiness! More »
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Games

Emotiv Epoc Mind Reading Controller Delayed For Not Reading Minds Very Well

10:13PM John Herrman | Emotiv’s “mind-reading” controller is a press darling, mainly because it’s really cool. Apparently, though, Emotiv won’t have the headset ready to go for the planned December release, because it doesn’t, strictly speaking, well, work. More »
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Science

Future Arrives Early: Judge Uses Brain Scan to Convict Person of Murder

11:15AM Wilson Rothman | It wasn’t supposed to happen—not yet at least—but it did: This past June, a judge in the Indian state of Maharashtra convicted a woman of killing her ex-fiance, citing as proof an EEG scan showing “experiential knowledge” of the crime. Many people do think there’s something to this, that an EEG or MRI scan of the noggin can depict lies and truth if read correctly, but in the US it’s agreed that this is experimental science at best, and snake-oil sales at worst. More »
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