A revolutionary gadget.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: The BBC, in collaboration with technology firm This Place, has developed a way in which users can control television programming with their mind, the international media giant announced Thursday.
The technology works by having users strap a headset on and directing particular thoughts to turn on BBC’s proprietary iPlayer and start watching a television show.
The prototype apparatus works by reading brainwaves using a sensor that rests on the forehead, and another that attaches to the ear using a clip. Those sensors can then track the electricity as it moves around the brain — watching for concentration, and filling up a bar of brainwaves when they concentrate hard enough to trigger a change on screen, reported The Independent.
Users will also be able to turn on and operate the app by concentrating or relaxing their minds, wrote the BBC.
In the first trial, 10 BBC staff tried out the app and were able to launch iPlayer and subsequently start viewing a program via the headset, he said.
“It was much easier for some than it was for others, but they all managed to get it to work,” said Cyrus Saihan, head of business development for the BBC’s Digital division.
“It’s an internal prototype designed to give our program makers, technologists and other users an idea of how this technology might be used in future,” Saihan stated. The technology could eventually be applied to aid individuals with a broad range of disabilities who cannot use traditional remote controls very easily, he continued.
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Made a very important ( revolutionary and unpublished ) discovery – invention-the1.first practical device for reading human thoughts / human mind reading machine / Brain Computer Interface. In particular, I have created a means for people with ALS ( such as British physicist Stephen Hawking or Steve Gleason problem ). Another unit called human Speech Generating Device. But I can’t publish my discovery ( I can’t protect their copyright ) and I invite partnership. Thank you. Сурен Акопов. About the problem look for example in You Tube :
1.Jack Gallant, human mind reading machine;
2.John – Dylan Haynes, human mind reading machine.
Cyrus Saihan and his colleagues from BBC is not right, they do not prove reasonable.