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A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind
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ScuttleMonkey
on Fri May 16, 2008 09:35 PM
from the better-faster-stronger dept.
from the better-faster-stronger dept.
esocid writes to tell us that researchers from Taiwan have created a new baseball cap complete with embedded bio-signal monitoring system. The purpose was to give a neural interface that could be useful in everyday life. "The cap contains five embedded dry electrodes on the wearer's forehead, and one electrode behind the left ear, that acquire EEG signals. Then, the EEG signals are wirelessly transmitted to a data receiver, where they are processed in real-time by a dual-core processor. The BCI system includes Bluetooth transmission for distances of 10m or less (e.g., for driving applications), as well as RF transmission for distances up to 600m (e.g., for potential sports applications). Next, the processed signals are transmitted back to the cap, where the data can be stored, displayed in real-time on a screen, or be used to trigger an audio warning, if necessary."
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Why a baseball hat? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why a baseball hat? (Score:5, Funny)
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Results of first reading: (Score:5, Funny)
"It looks like an ordinary baseball cap" (Score:5, Funny)
Bring on the baseball hat wearing disses (Score:5, Interesting)
So yeah, although you might have some magic baseball hat that makes you smarter, it's not going to matter much, people are still going to treat you like an invalid.
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Re:Bring on the baseball hat wearing disses (Score:5, Insightful)
The irony is that society perceives the tie to be a symbol of someone successful -- where in reality it's most usually a symbol of someone trapped by their own lack of creativity and intellect.
A tie = a slave collar. The tie is otherwise the singular, most useless, garment on Earth.
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Re:Bring on the baseball hat wearing disses (Score:5, Funny)
A backwards baseball cap adds: "Me too!
Was that ok?
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Doesn't read your mind. (Score:5, Insightful)
The EEG obtains information arising largely from the cortex and the summation of millions of neuronal currents. It is inaccurate and not reliable enough for critical applications (any situation where 'backfiring' is a bad thing).
As far as I am aware, the state of art of computer interpretation of EEG is only up to monitoring awareness and sleep and possibly detecting seizures, so this would be good for patients in hospitals & home in diagnosing epilepsy.Might be useful for train drivers or pilots, though, in detecting a sleeper-at-the-wheel.
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Not likely (Score:3, Funny)
My head sweat will kill those electrodes in two lawn mowings. And that'll be just from the smell.
Long ways off from being useful... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Long ways off from being useful... (Score:4, Funny)
--- Mr. DOS
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Luckily... (Score:5, Funny)
...it won't be able to penetrate my tinfoil hat.
Important measuring device? (Score:3, Funny)
At long last we can get a direct reading of how many IQ points you lose when you put on a baseball hat—and how many more you lose when you wear it backward or sideways.
The sadist in me... (Score:3, Funny)
Think of it. You just spent a few hundred bucks on a hat and some smartass with a laptop keeps electronically jabbing you in the skull while you run through the park.
I, for one, would laugh until my beverage escaped through my nose!
!parC hO (Score:4, Funny)
hmmm... it's hard to tell... (Score:3, Funny)
Gryffindor...
yay!
What the Hat reports... (Score:3, Funny)
By-the-way, the answers are: No (you look like a moron) and (sigh, not again) no.
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What science fiction have you been reading? Even a simple (but still out-of-reach technically) brain-computer interface has obvious uses - if a keyboard is useful, a BCI is useful. I hope technology progresses in my lifetime to the point that I can have a terminal emulator surgically implanted in my head.
Furthermore, what reality d
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