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If Smart Nappies were not on the list, I might take this more seriously.
by Jemm 8y ago
If Smart Nappies were not on the list, I might take this more seriously.
- SuperGent 8y agoAlso Telepathy, although they cite organisations that are researching these 'wonderful, weird (and possibly worrying) ways the world might change in the foreseeable future', which is more worrying!
- amelius 8y agoSee also this talk hosted by Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic18Xyk9is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic18Xyk9is
- walterbell 8y agoStartup headed by an ex-Facebook/Oculus exec, https://www.cnet.com/news/telepathy-openwater-mary-lou-jepsen-mri-mind-reading-mri-wearable-facebook/ https://www.cnet.com/news/telepathy-openwater-mary-lou-jepse... "I think we're talking about less than a decade, probably eight years until telepathy." The details of exactly how all this will work are a little murky, and Openwater says it needs to file for patents before it will publish a peer reviewed proof of feasibility and eventually launch a product. But Jepsen, who has also spent time at Google X, MIT and Intel, says the basic idea is to shrink down the huge MRI machines found in medical hospitals into flexible LCDs that can be embedded in a ski hat and use infrared light to see what's going on in your brain. "Literally a thinking cap," Jepsen explains."
- rezeroed 8y agoYou got further than me. I dismissed it immediately for being in the form of the periodic table.