The responsibility of Twitter updates got you down? D'you think about tweeting but never actually get around to it? Never fear, Adam Wilson is here. The University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering grad student removes the clunky and outdated interface of keyboard and lets his brain tweet for him.
That's right, he straps an electrode-coated swim cap to his head and watches as letters scroll across his computer screen. When his brain recognizes the letter he wants, the swim cap knows and uploads it directly to Twitter.
What's the meaning of that F to which you're inexplicably drawn? Why does your attention keep traveling toward the S? Now, thanks to Adam Wilson, you can become conscious of your unconscious, and make sure everyone else in the Tweetosphere is conscious of it, too. In addition to the way this technology promises to change human existence through hands-free Tweeting, secondary uses may include communication for people whose brains work, but whose bodies don't, namely those with ALS or high spinal cord injury.
D'you like it? You want more? You know you do, you naughty thing. And you're like two clicks away from giving your brain what it wants: more candy. My new book came out August 3rd (believe it or not, I made it through the worst of the recession without selling organ tissue or my children and am still writing). It's called, Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons. That blue text means it's clickable. Go ahead. Give it a just a little click.
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