Brainwave-reading headset allows people to move objects with their minds, Australian developers say

[froggyboy604]

Australian developers have created a brainwave-reading headset that allows people to move objects with their mind.

The team at the University of Sydney Technology Lab admits it "sounds like science fiction", but believe the game-changing technology could change the world.

The headset reads the brainwaves of the person wearing them, so thinking about moving a physical object or completing a task becomes a reality without physically moving a finger.

The team at the Tech Lab are not the first to come up with the innovative technology, but innovation leader Jim Cook claimed they would be able to produce the headset for an unprecedented affordable price of less than $200 a piece.

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This looks great for people who don't want to use a remote control to do tasks on a PC, or TV.

I wonder if the brainwave-reading headset can also be used to read people's mind.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

sounds like another way for us to become lazy and possibly tax our brains to bad states.

 

[froggyboy604]

I agree it sounds like another way for us to become lazy, and possibly use our brains even less because someone will invent brain-wave shortcuts like keyboard shortcuts, so we use our brains less compared to using our brains to move our hands which probably use more brain power because of the many joints, muscles, and fingers which the brain needs to control to move a real hand.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I get enough headaches as is, I don't see myself using this.