Text With Your Mind

For the low cost of $12,000, you’ll soon be able to buy an EEG-cap brain-computer interface. Reports Endgadget:

With the brand name Intendix, the €9000 (about $12,250) brain-computer interface gives you everything you need to send text messages with brain activity alone via EEG cap. According to the company, most people achieve five to ten characters per minute the first time they use the thing, with some folks eventually typing as fast as 1 character per second. In addition to to text messages, the system can also be used to trigger an alarm, send email, or send commands to external devices.

There’s also video of a related device controlling a Second Life avatar:

This may be no more than an expensive novelty to most, but to the paralyzed, this could be a wire to the outside world.

HT: Omni Brain