Allan Adler wrote:
> Back around 1992, I read in the NY Times that some researchers
> had hooked up an eeg to a PC, enabling the PC to take dictation
> from subjects through the eeg. The person whose eeg was being
> taken would give dictation one letter at a time by thinking about
> how he/she would draw the letter. Apparently there is enough
> information in the eeg for the PC to figure out what letter
> is being thought of.
I don't think it works as easy as that. But there are brainwaves that one
can learn to control operantly. See one of the latest issues (mid/late
april to early may) of nature for a detailed report on the first
"brain-wave-written" letter.
Bjoern
http://brembs.net