From Touchpad To Thought-pad

An anonymous reader wrote with a story saying "Move over, touchpad screens: New research funded in part by the National Institutes of Health shows that it is possible to manipulate complex visual images on a computer screen using only the mind. The study, published in Nature, found that when research subjects had their brains connected to a computer displaying two merged images, they could force the computer to display one of the images and discard the other. The signals transmitted from each subject's brain to the computer were derived from just a handful of brain cells."

Re:Handful of Brain Cells

[gstoddart]

However, my girlfriend hand (which is considerably smaller than mine) could probably hold several brains the size of her own.

Wow, I hope she doesn't read Slashdot. Or you're going to have to worry about holding something else in your hand.

Years of Practice already Seen

[Trailwalker]

The signals transmitted from each subject's brain to the computer were derived from just a handful of brain cells."

AKA: Posting

Thought-pad?

[gstoddart]

I'd want to be sure I have some pretty good filtering ... otherwise BOOBIES stray thoughts BOOBIES are going to be injecting BOOBIES themselves into BOOBIES what I'm doing and really BOOBIES mess things up.

Humans are SQUIRREL easily distracted, so if you're not BOOBIES careful, you're going to get MMMM ... CAKE some random activity.

Re:Off topic?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, well, your mom is off-topic.

Brain matters

[Drakkenmensch]

If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand!

We'll see in 30 years

[redemtionboy]

Consider touchscreens were invented in the 1970s at the University of Kentucky, and they haven't hit true widespread usage until the past few years, I'm not expecting to see this on the market anytime soon.

Re:Handful of Brain Cells

[CCarrot]

However, my girlfriend hand...

So...which one is your 'girlfriend' hand, the right or the left?

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