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PARIS (AFP) ? Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with dozens of electrodes, Austrian scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message ? letter by letter ? on a giant screen overhead.
"B-O-N-J-O-U-R" he writes with the power of his mind, much to the amazement of the largely French audience of scientists and curious onlookers gathered at the four-day European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, which opened Thursday.
Brunner and two colleagues from the state-financed Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York were demonstrating a "brain computer interface" which digitalizes brain signals emitted as electrical impulses ? picked up by the electrodes ? to convey intent.
No spoons were bent, but this was definitely mind over matter.
PARIS (AFP) ? Sitting stone still under a skull cap fitted with dozens of electrodes, Austrian scientist Peter Brunner stares at a laptop computer. Without so much as moving a nostril hair, he suddenly begins to compose a message ? letter by letter ? on a giant screen overhead.
"B-O-N-J-O-U-R" he writes with the power of his mind, much to the amazement of the largely French audience of scientists and curious onlookers gathered at the four-day European Research and Innovation Exhibition in Paris, which opened Thursday.
Brunner and two colleagues from the state-financed Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York were demonstrating a "brain computer interface" which digitalizes brain signals emitted as electrical impulses ? picked up by the electrodes ? to convey intent.
No spoons were bent, but this was definitely mind over matter.
