BrainStream: Controlling a wheelchair with your mind and subvocally-controlled, augmented-reality ge

[bkdelong]

I've been waiting to write about this all morning (via BoingBoing). It seems a bunch of intrepid researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago have taken work done on subvocal recognition (SVR) and applied it in such a fashion that one can drive/control a wheelchair through "thinking" about where they want it to move.

(NB: I've

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[chanel19]

Boy, that would give employeers whole new avenues of nightmares as they worry about their employees blowing off work at work.

[harpnfiddle]

I marvel at the intricacies of your mind. The paths that you travel are foreign to me. Do I know you?
Love, Mom