The best pictures you've seen.

[Cortexian]

I've been closely following this type of thing in the Popular Science subscription I have/had, it's really quite amazing. I would really not be surprised at all if we start seeing neural interfaces that allow direct mind manipulation of such devices in the next 10-15 years.

[Con]

Have you guys read about the experiment they did where they measured the activity in very specific parts of the brain while showing the person black and white images? After a series of control images and I'm assuming a neural net setup on the computer, they were able to display the image on the screen of what the person was seeing. It was noisy and low res but you could make out big bold text.



fake edit: here's the link:
http://pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scie...ly-from-brain/

[ExAm]

Oh man, the day they perfect this technology, art is going to take a quantum leap. If everyone can save every great idea they have to an image for later use, that is going to be huge.

[Bodzilla]

but then i'd seriously need a tin foil hat.

seriously theres alot of shit in there i'd rather stay locked away.

[ODX]

I remember seeing that before, but the image was much much worse so you could barely make out the letter. Seems like they've improved quite a ways.

[Guardian]

But, this means soon they'll be reading our minds. D:

Still would be cool if you could do things like take pictures from you latest dream

[=sw=warlord]

but then i'd seriously need a tin foil hat.

seriously theres alot of shit in there i'd rather stay locked away.

Just think of all the employers who would use this tech to find the "perfect" employee.
More importantly, if it becomes possible to read the information on the brain, we could eventually reach a point were we wouldn't need to teach ourselves through the traditional method of education because the next step would be finding out how to write new blocks of information on to the brain.

[Bodzilla]

Just think of all the employers who would use this tech to find the "perfect" employee.
More importantly, if it becomes possible to read the information on the brain, we could eventually reach a point were we wouldn't need to teach ourselves through the traditional method of education because the next step would be finding out how to write new blocks of information on to the brain.

but what about all the people that could use it for "perfect extortion"

[=sw=warlord]

but what about all the people that could use it for "perfect extortion"

Everything can be abused no matter what it is.
In the end of the day if there's a profit to be made it will be abused.

[Rob Oplawar]

But, this means soon they'll be reading our minds. D:

I don't think we have anything to worry about. Even if this technology leaps forward in resolution and accuracy, it still depends on active functional scans of the brain, something you can't just do by pointing a ray gun at somebody's head. It needs to be calibrated for the specific person, which requires a level of cooperation on their part, and it needs them to stay perfectly still in a large, complex scanning device (I think they used fMRI for this, iirc).

e: *looks at avatar* It won't keep me out of your head, tho.