Intel wants your brains
Intel are beavering away at creating a computer chip that can be implanted into your brain.
The company beleives its customers would be willing to have a chip implanted in their brains so they could operate computers without the need for a keyboard or mouse using thoughts alone.
The implant could also be used to operate devices such as cell phones, TVs and DVDs.
It all sounds a little far fetched, but Intel research scientist Dean Pomerleau thinks they are close to coming up with a brain sensing chip.
Pomerleau and his team have used MRI to scan the brains of volunteers to see if brain patterns match when they are thinking of similar things, and so far the results look promising.
Intel say a headset incorporating brain sensing technology to operate a computer is close, and the next step is to develop the tiny brain implant, which would be much less cumbersome for the user.
And scientists are predicting we're 10 years away from 'hybrid' computers using a combination of living tissue and technology. Think Darth Vader or the Borg... no-one nice!
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