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IBM predicts mind-controlled smartphones in the next five years

IBM predicts mind-controlled smartphones in the next five years Created by MG15 on Dec 20, 2011

Since 2006, IBM has predicted what technological advances the next five years will bring as part of its "5 in 5" series, and this year the company says that by 2017 the technology to read brain impulses will have advanced to the point where you could conceivably have a baseball hat that reads your mind and transmits your thoughts to your smartphone. This sounds great, but the recent "Project Black Mirror" Siri hack / hoax brought some attention to thought-controlled computing and it sounds like this technology is still much more than five years away. »read more

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