MIT student creates device that is able to search the entire internet using just his mind
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student has created a device that allows humans to communicate with machines.

Key Points

  • 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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  • Squire1039@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    9 months 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.