The U.S. Army has entered into a contract for 4 million dollars from the company, which has developed "telepathic helmets" for silent reading impulses in the brain and secret communications between military personnel. The U.S. military expects will eventually provide "direct telepathic management of military equipment solely by force of thought," writes Time.
Increased computer power and penetration in the mechanisms of the brain led scientists to vigorously work to identify the characteristics of neurological signals that float in the brain when a person mentally talks with itself. Initial military task is to intercept those signals with the help of incredibly intricate software, which then converts them into audio message on the radio, addressed to other soldiers on the battlefield.
"This will without a radio microphone - explains director of the program, a military researcher, Dr. Elmar Shmeysser neurophysiology. - As the war has been trained to express clear, unambiguous and stereotyped expressions, this step until the ability to think in the same way." (Full text on the site InoPressa.ru.)
The device, developed by the military, will receive tangible embodiment (not to mention its practical application) may only 10-20 years. The contract for 5 years, which the army last year concluded with the tender winner - a group of scientists from several universities (the University of California at Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland), aims to "decode brain activity, so the military can transmit by radio orders from one or many military comrades, just let out the order to himself and to think about who it wants to give.
Initially the "recipient" will probably hear in your headphones synthesized voice, credit reports, but scientists hope to eventually develop a version where the orders would be credited votes to who they prefer, and indicate the degree of remoteness and the location of the speaker on the listener, says U.S. magazine.
"Give the military the ability to communicate among themselves, while maintaining complete stillness - is invaluable, it is important for fighting, and to reduce the combat losses - the application for applicants contract, which amounted to war last year. - In doing so, you revolutionary technology silent communication and focus on areas which by their nature invincible for the sound and light from outside sources. "
The main difficulty - how to develop software that can understand the brain signals corresponding to speech, said publication. These impulses captured system of 128 sensors, which eventually will be built into the helmet. The sensors record the weak electrical charge generated by neural circuits the brain when we think. At the exit produced electroencephalogram - tangled ground lamb on the screen, which researchers will study to identify the signals that are key to communication.
"We believe that we can teach the computer to understand these scribble so that it reads the orders that your brain pays mouth and lips," - explains Shmeysser. Unfortunately, this is not about how to find the only correct of lamb. "There is no" golden neuron, which would be responsible for it "- shows a scientist.
Research project leader Dr Mike Dzmura from the University of California at Irvine said that his task - like finding the correct "Thread" in full plate of macaroni. "We need to highlight important fragments of spaghetti - he explains - and sometimes they have to break and join other". But because the power of computers has been growing steadily, the task can deal in "real time", he said.
In addition, users will have to learn to think 'out loud. " "How can we force the man away to himself any idea in a way that EEG signal was very clear and we are opposed to it from the background noise?" - Wondered Dzmura. Finally, because everyone EEG has its own users' telepathic helmets "will have to undergo special training to computers, intercept their silent orders, to recognize the unique characteristics of each thought, concludes the publication.
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