Tag Archive: brain signals

Now, a device that turns thoughts into sounds

London, Jan 1 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has “spoken” three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by an implant deep in his brain.

Scientists have said that if they could add more sounds to the repertoire of brain signals the implant [...]

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Paralysed man successfully controls speech synthesiser with thought

London, Dec 16 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has “spoken” three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by an implant deep [...]

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‘Brain-to-brain communication’ developed

London, Oct 15 (ANI): Reading minds would soon be possible, thanks to British scientists who have developed a system that creates “brain to brain communication.”

The system, developed by a team at the University of Southampton, makes it possible to send messages formed by one person’s brain signals through an internet connection to another person’s brain [...]

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Humans will be immortal in 20 years, says leading scientist

London, Sept 24 (ANI): American scientist Ray Kurzweil, dubbed the smartest futurist on Earth by Bill Gates, believes that today’s 60-year-olds could go on to live forever.

The 61-year-old American elaborated that technology and understanding of human genes are accelerating at an incredible rate.

Kurzweil, who has predicted new technologies arriving before, says theoretically, at the rate [...]

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Free will does exist!

London, Sep 24 (ANI): A new study has challenged the landmark 1980s experiment that purportedly showed that free will doesn’t exist.

In 1983, neuroscientist Benjamin Libet asked volunteers wearing scalp electrodes to flex a finger or wrist, which led to a dip in the signals being recorded, called the “readiness potential”.

Libet interpreted this RP as [...]

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