We’ll be honest, we’re always on the lookout for faster and better ways to annoy our Twitter followers with hopelessly mundane status updates, and this brain-control interface from the University of Wisconsin’s Adam Wilson seems to be the perfect to get all Scoble on it with a minimum of effort — you think it, you tweet it. Okay okay, we kid — it’s actually just the usual brainwave-control setup you’ve seen everywhere, and the average user can only do ten characters a minute, but think of the potential, people. Soon everyone will know that you are “Walking on sidewalk, LOL” almost the second you think it, and all it will take is a mindreading cap paired with a sophisticated computers running an advanced signal processing algorithm connected to the massive infrastructure of the internet via a multibillion-dollar mobile broadband network. That’s progress. Video after the break.
[Via Hack A Day]
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