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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

Intel Corp. announced at Computex plans for its next-generation Atom processor for tablets and netbooks. Oak Trail is an integrated SoC that will sample in early 2011 sporting a 50 percent reduction in average power consumption and support for high definition video, Intel said.

Like Intel's existing Atom chips, Oak Trail will support Windows 7, Google Android and the merged Intel and Nokia mobile Linux software called MeeGo. As part of an Intel keynote at Computex, Acer chief executive Gianfranco Lanci said his company will make netbooks and tablets based on Oak Trail and MeeGo.

Intel's Oak Trail chip is another data point in Intel's effort to extend beyond its traditional PC business, in part through a new system-on-chip initiative the company has pushed for several years. However to date most of Intel's Atom business has been in netbooks which have designed in 50 million of the low power x86 processors in the past two years, Intel said.

Intel tips next-gen Atom SoC for tablets