VULCAN MIND MELD’: FIRST HUMAN BRAIN-TO-BRAIN COMMUNICATION LETS SCIENTIST CONTROL ANOTHER PERSON’S MOVEMENT
Remember Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Researchers have made the first step in human telepathy, creating a brain-to-brain interface that allows one person to control the motions of another. Mind control technology has been making strikes in the medical field, helping paralyzed or disabled patients feed themselves and fly drones as researchers hope to give them more independence. But these instances have only been using a person’s brain activity to power a device, like a robot. In contrast, researchers at the University of Washington used the brain signals of one person to control the hand motions of another person. The EEG signals from Rajesh Rao’s brain were captured and then transferred over the internet to Andrea Stocco, who was wearing a cap over the part of his brain that would control his hand movement. (Photo: University of Washington