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The system, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, is said to be the first technology that would allow people to send thoughts, words and images directly to the minds of others, particularly people with a disability.
It has also been hailed as the future of the internet, which would provide a new way to communicate without the need for keyboards and telephones.
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more on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... ation.html
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what gonna be next, super juicy nano sp*rm? Nice news though...
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As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.
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Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>
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Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl
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Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

but you want to read others'thought :roll:

I believe with this tool, human will be more honest with each other. You can't lie and you can "show" your desire easily toward someone :D
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Noobs_Slayer wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl


Not just that, imagine the people who have all those weird fetishes, they would become and instant Pariah.
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XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.
What's so horrible about It?.. lulz
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Squirt wrote:
Noobs_Slayer wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl


Not just that, imagine the people who have all those weird fetishes, they would become and instant Pariah.

well, if they choose to think about it, they got to face the consequence

XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)
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They could use this in the court of law. :)
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Blurred wrote:They could use this in the court of law. :)

Was thinking the same ...
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Noobs_Slayer wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

No one wants to have their thoughs readen. Imagine, you thinking about boobs an'butts and someone reading your thoughs lawl

Don't really need to read someone's thoughts to know that, most men think about that anyway..

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Blurred wrote:They could use this in the court of law. :)

Was thinking the same ...


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I dont want a trojan in my head!
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Deadsolid wrote:I dont want a trojan in my head!
Yeah.. lulz
Seriously, It would be creepy.. If someone could read someone else's mind.
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Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.

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NuclearSilo wrote:
XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)

I'm a good person, but I still wouldn't want anyone to read my mind. Sure there's nothing for someone to find, but it would just be weird.
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XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

Pretty much this.

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From the look of it, after reading the article, it's a system where a computer first has to be trained to recognise a paricular thought pattern in order to then send a specific signal, the example in the article being: think of moving the left arm for 0 and right arm for 1.

So the machine can't decipher real thoughts, it has to be trained to perform an action after reading a thought.

It also looks like the other half of this so-called brain-to-brain communication, that is the "to-brain" part isn't even direct. It's more or less brain-to-computer-to-eyeball, then they monitored the brainwaves to make sure the eyeball picked up the signal. Total BS and pure hype to call that brain-to-brain. Nothing special.
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yah i was e-raping www.engadget.com and it said that, pretty cool stuff, lets just hope it gets used for the right stuff
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Kaigar wrote:From the look of it, after reading the article, it's a system where a computer first has to be trained to recognise a paricular thought pattern in order to then send a specific signal, the example in the article being: think of moving the left arm for 0 and right arm for 1.

So the machine can't decipher real thoughts, it has to be trained to perform an action after reading a thought.

It also looks like the other half of this so-called brain-to-brain communication, that is the "to-brain" part isn't even direct. It's more or less brain-to-computer-to-eyeball, then they monitored the brainwaves to make sure the eyeball picked up the signal. Total BS and pure hype to call that brain-to-brain. Nothing special.

That's just the begin. Wait till the end. Everytime you think about smt, your brain generated an electric wave, that's the catch
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Unless they've got you hooked up to an EEG they won't be picking up diddly-squat signal. As the distance between the detector and the scource (various different parts of the brain with independantly-firing neurons) increases you would become less certain where your signal is coming from. There'd also be interference from any other nearby electrical field, nearby people/ other brains, there'd be no way of having your thoughts accurately read secretly from a distance.

I see no reason, however, if computers were programmed/trained to recognise and decipher thoughs well enough, that you might be able to have your thoughts read while strapped to an EEG.

So it's ok, you can all put your tin-foil hats down.
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Hell no, if you could read people's thoughts and they could read yours, it would suck.

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*Sitting in class being bored, staring outside the window in thought, thinking off your girlfriend last night >> rest of the class signal each other to check our your thought >> goodbye private life xD*

Same if you'dd have certain issue's at home, or whatever would be going around in your mind :P

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Nick Invaders wrote:
NuclearSilo wrote:
XMoshe wrote:As long as they don't invent something to read my dirty thoughts.

If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)

I'm a good person, but I still wouldn't want anyone to read my mind. Sure there's nothing for someone to find, but it would just be weird.


They won't find anything dark. They will find dirty things though :P
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so long as they aren't able to accurately read my thoughts against my privacy, I'm safe :X :P


NuclearSilo wrote:If you are a good person, and don't have a dark mind. There's nothing to worry about. Ppl around will respect you :)


lol if they do, then people who's different from " good " will be adressed at " bad " o.O
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NuclearSilo wrote:
Squirt wrote:Yeah I don't want anything to read my thoughts... >_>

but you want to read others'thought :roll:

I believe with this tool, human will be more honest with each other. You can't lie and you can "show" your desire easily toward someone :D

hello imagine the chaos i mean what if osama thing obama is hot when they are about to execute him

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honestly they are going to far
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haha just watched the movie "Surrogates" I think it would be awesome if we were on that level of technology..
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