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Army Awards Contract for ‘Thought Helmets’ (Seriously, it’s Tinfoil Hat Time, like, Now)

1:00AM Jack Loftus | From the “how the hell did we miss this” department comes word that the U.S. military is hard at work creating “thought helmets” for its soldiers. If fully realised, this mind-interfacing piece of gear would allow for what plebeians would call magic, and Arthur C. Clark would call basic telepathy. The “good” news is the Army believes telepathic communication between soldiers in the field is entirely possible, some day. The bad news is that “some day” is decades away for this incredibly ambitious plan—this ain’t no video game controller, folks. More »