Thoughtomatic

Mind-controlled car
Your thoughts are in the steering wheel with this concept by engineers led by Raul Rojas at the Free University of Berlin:

Source: New Scientist

This program learns to associate two different thought patterns via electro magnetic sensors with left or right directions. What I find surprising about this project is that the computer is  trained to interpret the thoughts of the user, rather than the other way around. Usually when I think of computers programs I imagine something that has to be learnt, but in this case the program learns the user.

This links to my previous posts on Twitter and Google on the way that advances in digital technology are subverting the
subject/object relationship between computer and user. Increasingly, we will not be adapting to the machines that surround us, they will understand and adapt to us. 


Vashti