Port Vila, Vanuatu (PressExposure) April 22, 2010 -- How often have you sat at your computer and silently screamed in frustration? A quick flick of the wrong key and the computer rushes on to do as it was told, but not what you really wanted it to do. All this could change in the very near future.
The newest innovation in technology from Intel Laboratories utilizes brain scans to discover what a user is thinking about. This makes thought-based user interfaces not as far-fetched as many people considered.
The technology is capable of to scanning a person's brain in order to reveal what part is being activated. Using software analyses functional fMRI, Dean Pomerleau, Intel Labs researcher, states that in tests the computer reckoned with a 90% accuracy, which of two words a person was thinking about.
This combined project with Intel, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh is still being developed. It is believed it could eventually assist the severely physically disabled to communicate.
Pomerleau believes it is the beginning step in being able to capable technology with our minds. "The vision is being able to interface to information, to your devices and to other people without having an intermediary device,"he said.
The scanner at this time can only be utilized with prohibitively expensive and bulky FMRI equipment. It hasn't as yet been tailored to analyze abstract ideas.
Intel's central focus is on computer processors and other hardware. However it often creates and displays new technologies in an effort to arouse the market. Some of its other innovations include:
oLightning Fast Movie Donwloads, a new high-speed optical cable, a thin optical fibre about the width of a human hair. In just 17 minutes the entire library of Congress, (10 terabytes of information) could be downloaded. o3D Scanning with a Digital Camera that will allow amateurs to create 3D visual content, using a standard digital camera and a PC. oThe Dispute Finder aims to automatically inform a user when information they encounter is disputed by another source on the Internet. oThe Intel Reader is a mobile handheld device, the size of a book, that takes pictures of printed material and converts them into digital text that can be read aloud to the user. Not only will this assist the visually impaired user, but also users with dyslexia.
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