A headset that reads your brainwaves by Tan Le

Have you ever thought of headsets that reads your brainwaves???

Ohh not so now you can start thinking. As in Tan presented this thought in recent TED Oxford England event in July,2010. Most of the time we give commands to the machine. But interactions between the humans is very complex process we take lots of complex stuff into account explicitly.

So the intention is computer can understand not only what we are directing to do but also our facial expressions and emotional experiences. How about interpreting the signals naturally produced from the brain. 

This sounds like a pretty simple idea but its not very easy one for many reasons.

These guies made a wonderful device that costs few hundred $ and implemented precise algorithms. The headset device is pretty comfortable. We can actually do tasks by commanding machines or in this case rather computer through imaginations.

Using this device now your computer generated avatars will be more natural and appealing as the expressions will be directly generated from the natural signals produced by brain using headsets that reads your brain waves.

So in games you can dynamically respond to your emotional state. It will completely enhance your experiences  in real times applications. You can imagine this system as applied in your digital homes so you can do you home tasks such as opening curtains, closing curtains just by your imagination and the list goes on. 

So next time if you are feeling sleepy so you imagine the light switch offs automatically and when you wake up at night to attend natures call then you can imagine that light glows. 

Some really nice life changing real life application can be operating wheel chair just by imagination or facial expressions can be mapped with the movement of the chair.

So here it is called is Brain Computer Interface Technology.

You can find more information regarding this talk from this link

Finally thanx Aditya for resending the link and giving me chance to contribute to this page. It gives me immense pleasure to share this thing with you guies. So more creative ideas coming up this TEDxPune event stay tuned!!!!