Included in TIME's 50 Best Inventions of 2009 is a device developed by one of our own, Wisconsin Doctoral Student - Adam Wilson. The device monitors brain activity through electrodes allowing someone to "tweet" by just thinking. Read more here
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Wow. While I am seeing many positive implications of this invention, (case of guy i 23 year coma who heard it all, can be an alternative to facitated communication among the disabled), it is also frightening to think that with further develoment of this technology, my thoughts can potentially be broadcasted to the world just by thinking about it. Whoa, gotta keep those nasty thoughts in check. :)
This is really amazing! And a little scary at the same time because who knows where this technology will lead. It will be interesting and exciting to see where this goes in the future.
It sounds like a major life improvement for people with "locked up" syndrome. I can't imagine what it will do for their quality of life. Their family and friends must be thrilled about this invention. I'm sure it will benefit people with other types of diseases and speech impairments as well.
This is absolutely amazing to me. I cannot believe that something like this actually exists! I am surprised that I have not heard of this before, considering it came from one our grads. Makes me think about the popularity of twitter, the original tweet machine. Twitter is so wide spread and applauded for its innovative-ness. Twitter doesn't compare to this!
I am not a fan of Twitter for many reasons, but personal opinions aside, Wilson's contraption is a great demonstration of technologies yet to come.
It's nice to see that Twitter is being used as a "prototype" for the amazing technology that is yet to come--it gives us hope that if this device is able to do something as primitive as dictate using Twitter, there is a much higher calling out there in the future for things that really matter.
I think that for something to be innovative, it has to be meaningful to a population in one way or another--in this case, make the lives of the disabled better.
This innovation is truly amazing and the implications of this type of technology are great. It almost seems unfathomable that something like this even exists, but the power of this innovation has potentially great benefits as it becomes more refined.
Wow, I agree that this amazing! I also am not a fan of Twitter and can't seem to figure out why everyone is so enthralled with it. This extension of Twitter is truly awesome and completely describes innovation. It's definitely new and different to the world, it could better the lives of the disabled and also could have many further opportunities for other areas as well.
This is amazing!! I am quite sure that this is going to be extremely helpful in medical treatment industry. By using this, patient who cannot talk can communicate freely with others.
And I was luckily enough to find a toy that is similar to this in terms of the concept and the way it functions.
It is called mindflex and being awarded as toy of the year 2010.
here is the link to more details:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindflex