...using only your brain! - We have reported before on
technology that will enable paraplegics to control an internet
cursor using only their brain waves. Now researchers may have
found a way for them to send email that way too (and it's one
way to avoid spam)! The technology is based on the fact our
brains are powered by electricity. Another use for this
technology would be to enable us to control video games with our
brains. In MSNBC, Eric Bland quotes researcher Mike D'Zmura as
saying, "I think that this will eventually become just another
way of communicating." Bland quotes D?Zmura as saying that his
research has two objectives, and the first is to compose a
message "that little voice in your head." After that, his teams
wants to send that message to a particular individual using only
the power of thought, so that it can be read as text or as a
voice mail. Here's something interesting: in the many letters
the Striebers received after Communion was originally published
in 1987, everyone who wrote said that