BBCI demo in front of live audience.

[Royston]

I searched for this, but couldn't find anything...so apologies if someones already posted a topic on the BBCI.

 

Anyway, I've just been watching 'the gadget show' on channel 5 who were doing the rounds at this years 'ceBit Computer Fair' in Hanover. A prototype of the BBCI (Berlin Brain Computer Interface) was being tested for the first time in front of a live audience.

 

Using an EEG, the programme uses a process of elimination when the user is confronted with groups of letters. Purely by using thought, and using a yes or no response i.e the person thinks of moving their left or right arm. The subject can move the cursor on screen to the group of letters they require to whittle down to one, and so write a word. It's been dubbed the 'mental typewriter', and although there is a lot of room for refinement, there's no doubt on the huge implications this technology has.

 

A couple of articles from BCCN, and New Scientist

 

http://www.bernstein-zentren.de/en/259.php

 

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn8826.html