Samsung engineers working on brain-controlled tablets

[Wireless News]

Samsung’s next big thing could be very big indeed if its engineers succeed in creating brain-controlled tablets. Technology Review reports that Samsung’s.Emerging Technology Lab has teamed up with.University of Texas electrical engineering professor.Roozbeh Jafari to research “how to bring mind control to its mobile devices with the hope of developing ways for people with mobility impairments to connect to the world.” Jafari and the Samsung researchers aren’t anywhere close to developing a marketable prototype yet, of course, and Technology Review notes that their current plans for a mind-controlled tablet involve “a cap studded with EEG-monitoring electrodes” that monitors “well-known brain activity patterns that occur when people are shown repetitive visual patterns.” In the demonstration Technology Review watched, researchers were able

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