Intel scientists are working on technology that is able to decode words while you’re thinking. Unlike other technologies to control equipment with the brain , which require you imagine making a movement, which suggests Intel is literally read minds.

To achieve this, scientists working on the project are making maps of brain activity, to create a pattern and then by comparison, a software would know which word is the one you’re thinking at that moment, of course, with sufficient speed to keep pace with our thoughts.

The results so far have shown that the technology is capable of matching results based on brain patterns, and searching for clues that could only suggest what is the word. As Dean Pomerleau, head of research:

The computer uses a “20 questions” to decipher the word you’re thinking. For example a word like a sword or something you dig, produces activity in the motor cortex, known as the area that controls movement.

A word related to food such as apple, produces activity in the brain associated with hunger, so the computer can find properties of the word thought and recognize quickly.

We are mapping the brain activity of a common brain while thinking, and could dictate letters or searching just thinking.

The mapping is difficult and takes time, and equipment used CT and MRI, but hope to develop a headset type device capable of doing this work.

It seems that the thoughts are not as impenetrable as we expected them to be. If such technology does have full development, the uses would be unimaginable – as well as privacy issues also occur. If a court could put my hands on it, justice would become perfect, but if you use against your will or other purposes How do you feel?

Link: via Telegraph.co.uk