Brain-reading smartphone

Tired of typing? Smartphones that read your thoughts could only be 5 years away.

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00:00that are going to eventually, one day, let you communicate using only your mind.

00:30This is not easy.

00:45The woman in this video has ALS.

00:49She is completely trapped inside her body.

00:52She cannot move or speak, but she is typing with her mind.

00:58The electrodes record her neurons firing.

01:01When she imagines moving the cursor, then the computer learns to move it for her.

01:10One day, not so far away, it may be possible for me to think in Mandarin and for you to

01:19feel it instantly in Spanish.

01:29We have a goal of creating a system capable of typing 100 words per minute, five times

01:37faster than you can type on your smartphone, straight from your brain.