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IBM predicts 'mind-controlled' PCs within five years
Wednesday December 21, 2011 11:26:26 PM,
IANS
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London: Technology
company IBM predicts that mind-controlled computers will be on the
market within five years.
Apple, Google and Microsoft are already investigating
voice-controlled gadgets - or gadgets controlled by moving your
body in front of a camera. But IBM thinks the tech giants might be
a little shortsighted.
"Mind-reading has been wishful thinking for science fiction fans
for decades, but their wish may soon come true," Daily Mail
reported Wednesday quoting a spokesperson.
The company is investigating smartphone and PC technology where
"you would just need to think about calling someone, and it
happens".
The prediction was part of IBM's annual "Five in Five" report. The
company also predicted that by 2016, passwords would have
disappeared.
Primitive mind-control is already used in games such as Mattel's
Mindflex, where you wear a brainwave-reading headband and
concentrate to raise and lower a ball - held mid-air by jets of
air that respond to your brainwaves.
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