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MIT Researcher Creates Mind-Controlled Internet Search Headset (www.unilad.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Arnav Kapur developed AlterEgo, a headset that allows users to search the internet using thought
The device picks up brain signals associated with words and uses them to query the internet
It can answer questions, solve math problems, and access information discreetly and silently.
Beyond personal use, it aims to help people with speech disorders like ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and MS (multiple sclerosis).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

From the project's page:

The wearable system captures peripheral neural signals when internal speech articulators are volitionally and neurologically activated, during a user's internal articulation of words.

It doesn't capture the central signal, but peripheral, most likely from the nerves running around your face and your neck used to produce speech.