Brain-computer connection with direct

With the new technology, computer users can immediately understand better by reading their minds. What sounds like science fiction already passed the first test of the real world - in a flight simulator.
The pilot sits in a flight simulator wearing the EEG cap.

While there is much more to fly than the wheel, sitting in the flight simulator pilot wearing the EEG cap (electrode-studded cap that reads brain activity) was recently able to steer the aircraft flight path free hands - just by imagining a joystick in their mind's eye. Quite predictably, this whipped up more than its fair share of media stories about "science fiction-style thought control." However, application of this technology is decades away - and even then, it was really only intended for pilots defect.

Each of the five groups involved in the research project funded by the European Union Brainflight have different goals with faster application.


Getting the public interest

Fricke does not recognize, however, that the press release Brainflight played up sci-fi scenario deliberately. A lot of research has gone into Brainflight before the action plane, but laboratory experiments are not sexy enough to spur media coverage, according to Fricke.


The human brain can be immediately read by the computer

Although it may not be quite striking to reporters today, the technology developed by Fricke and his colleagues have great potential. This can make working on a computer is much easier - by providing PC access to the thoughts and feelings through a brain-computer interface (BCI).

A computer does not record user frustration when something is not working properly, or impatience when a program takes too long to get started - yet.

This technology could resemble a smart version of Clippy, the animated paper clip from Microsoft Office programs. Clippy will always appear at the most inopportune time and then it just will not go away. A computer with a kind of emotional intelligence can see when the user needs help and only then send Clippy bounced off the screen.