SAMSUNG BRAIN POWERED TABLET
Tech giant Samsung is looking to ditch not only the keyboard but the touch screen in favor of mind control.
The
technology, which Samsung stresses is in its infancy, would allow users to
control a computing device with their thoughts alone.
A
project at the company's Emerging Technology Lab in partnership with Roozbeh
Jafari, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of
Texas, the research has already enabled test subjects to launch apps on a
tablet, pick a song on a playlist or a contact from an address book and power
up or power down the device. However, according to the MIT Technology Review,
which first reported on the project, don't expect to see these features rolling
out as part of Samsung's 2014 product line-up.
In
order to control the tablet with their minds alone, users needs to wear a cap
full of EEG monitoring electrodes which only work when wet, meaning that a gel
needs to be applied to the head. As Jafari says: "Depending on how many
electrodes you have, this can take up to 45 minutes to set up, and the system
is uncomfortable."
