Marriage Of Brain Science And The Internet

Researchers at Keio University have developed the world’s first demonstration experiment to help a disabled person to to chat and stroll through the virtual world by using brainwave. This technology will help motion-impaired people to communicate with others. This technology is a “marriage of brain science and the Internet”, and it opens an opportunity to meet with people and have chat in the virtual world.

The tech. uses electrodes attached to the scalp, and a computer detects brainwaves from the cortex when the subject slightly moves fingers, and it moves the avatar accordingly.