Your Happy Hat(tm) brain interface is ready!
New Brain-Machine Interface Creating Technology for Manipulating Robots Using Human Brain Activity
Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2006 - (JCN Newswire)- Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (”ATR”) and Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. (”HRI”) have collaboratively developed a new “Brain Machine Interface” (”BMI”) for manipulating robots using brain activity signals. This new BMI technology has enabled the decoding of natural brain activity and the use of the extracted data for the near real-time operation of a robot without an invasive incision of the head and brain. This breakthrough facilitates greater possibilities for new types of interface between machines and the human brain..,more,,,
I want this “Brain Machine Interface” now! Now more typing out new posts for the 3Yen.com—I could just think the words onto the screen. Kool!
However, I bet the poison gas cult, Aum Shin Rikyo (now called “Aleph“) would looove this new “Brain Machine Interface” even more than me. Aum used to promote their “Perfect Salvation Initiation” headgear. As shown in the picture of the fruitcake guru Asahara Shoko, it was electrode-laden shock cap used by Aum members that issued a series of low voltage currents pulsing through the brain from small electrodes placed onto the scalp. They used to sing a chant on Tokyo streets that went:
Every child has a HEADGEAR A HEADGEAR, a HEADGEAR
子ども それは 親の 犠牲者
おかしな機械も ひとりずつひとつ
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