Remote
Control Humans: In an
announcement that’s going to be a boon to the tin-foil haberdashery business,
scientists at the University of Washington (UW) have successfully built a
non-invasive system to remotely control the actions of humans.
On August
12, Professor Rajesh Rao, wearing an black and green EEG skullcap set to
monitor the left motor cortex of the brain, which coordinates hand movement,
mentally moved a finger to fire a cannon in a video game. He made no physical
movement; he just thought about the action.
The results
were recorded and pinged across campus to the UW’s Institute for Learning and
Brain Sciences, where fellow researcher Andrea Stocco was wearing a rather
fetching purple swimming cap containing a transcranial magnetic stimulation
coil. Stocco wore earplugs to reduce outside stimuli and his hand rested on top
of a standard keyboard.










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