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 Can you imagine, you will be able to operate your pc simply by thinking? It is hard believe but the new technology will be capable of directly interpreting words as they are thought, according to researchers at Intel who are behind the roject. The scientists are creating detailed maps of the activity in the brain for individual words which can then be matched against the brain activity of someone using the computer, allowing the machine to determine the word they are thinking. 

 A senior researcher at Intel Laboratories, Dean Pomerleau said that currently, the devices required to get sufficient detail of brain activity were bulky, expensive magnetic resonance scanners, like those used in hospitals. Preliminary tests of the system have shown that the computer can work out words by looking at similar brain patterns and looking for key differences that suggest what the word might be. Turning brain waves into real-world tech action still requires some heavy decoding of brain activity. The Intel team has already made use of fMRI brain scans to match brain patterns with similar thoughts across many test subjects.Plenty of other researchers have also tinkered in this area. Toyota recently demoed a wheelchair controlled with brainwaves, and University of Utah researchers have created a wireless brain transmitter that allows monkeys to control robotic arms. So it is clear that humans are not restricted any more to just using keyboards and mice.

Human mind reader computers are being developed by Intel