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Scientists to study synthetic telepathy

Submitted by Idnan

Aug 13, 2008

Summary

A team of UC Irvine scientists has been awarded a $4 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Office to study the neuroscientific and signal-processing foundations of synthetic telepathy. Read the full article

Comments (2)

Wayne Smallman,

Aug 13, 2008

For those who read my recent article: "The future of mankind: predictions of a new world" this is very much in line with several of my predictions.

However, it's going to be quite some time before this area of science produces something useful — neurology is a notoriously fickle discipline...

Iwoolf,

Aug 14, 2008

This looks the same as the Emotiv neuro-headset, just with SMS. External EEG plus modern pattern recognition, fed into an instant message client. I could add this to an Emotiv on a fraction of the budget. I just need a sponsor...