No, it appears to be an external headset, although it was noted that people wearing it looked like they had head injuries, but they are working on improving it so that it is less visible.
While there are several ways to approach direct brain communication, they all have their benefits and drawbacks. Indirect methods, like this one, are much safer. But direct implantations, while riskier to get going, have the potential for near unlimited speed (both in bandwidth as well as reaction time).
The latter definitely will have more benefits in the long run.
Does that mean I'd want one in my head right now? Absolutely not. But if I were a unable to control most of my appendages, I'd definitely consider it.
You can tell it's bullshit right away because it's not anywhere near the brain. How do you pick up brain signals from the jaw? Compare this to what you need for an EEG and all of that gear is there to just record responses to pulses of light.
IIRC, when you think about words, you also emit weak signals to your face like if you were actually pronouncing those words, but too weak to actually activate your muscles..
This device would pick up those signals.
EDIT: not saying this thing works, but the principle is valid.
The wearable system captures peripheral neural signals when internal speech articulators are volitionally and neurologically activated, during a user's internal articulation of words.
It doesn't capture the central signal, but peripheral, most likely from the nerves running around your face and your neck used to produce speech.
it's the same bs as facebooks "brain armband" which just picks up signals from muscle activity and not really from the brain. but because the brain is triggering those signals they call it "brain interface". it's just bs.
It doesn't appear to mention men (or women) anywhere in the article.
Are you saying that because the one scan that is depicted displays a man, then the entire article must be male-focused? Because I don't agree. Scanners work the same way for both sexes.
It even uses gender-neutral language extensively - someone, people, passengers.
I really don't see where you're getting this "the article is sexist" angle you seem to be going for from. Is there something I'm missing?
And if I recall correctly TSA union had to fight for YEARS to get film dosimeters. Something every hospital requires for radiology/nuclear medicine staff
And where do the original scans get saved? And for how long? Who can access those? Can those images be resold? Can I request my personal data and request to have it removed?
I felt 100% violated when I had to go through a machine like this and haven't felt like flying ever since, I'll take the train thanks. When the kids couldn't be scanned because that would constitue child porn, that's where we should have scratched our head and maybe take a step back.
I own the image of my genitals and have exclusive rights to distribute them, not some TSA human I have never met before.
Yep, intra continental travel is what is left (for pleasure, I guess if you want to emigrate you could take a boat) That's cool, I have seen like 2% of it. Maybe in 25 years, you won't be obliged to share the image of your genitals if you want to travel by plane. Cross ocean travel is really cool and can expand your horizons, but I don't really need it.
So there you have it; you don't need to worry about security seeing all your bits and pieces - just whatever you've forgotten to take out of your pockets.
Clearly not written by someone who knows any trans people.
Yeah they changed that pretty quick. It hasn't been like that for years now.
I don't fly often, but I did a few months ago, and every airport didn't have a single scanner machine running, it was all metal detectors. I don't know if the machines broke and the money to keep them running dried up, or they just stopped caring, or what.
Every time I’ve flown in the past few years they’re still using the scanning machines. I have PreCheck so I get to skip them and go through the metal detector, but the machines were still there scanning away.
I’m well aware. Read what the person I replied to wrote, about how they don’t even use these scanners and use metal detectors instead. That is not my experience.
I remember that one guy that was wearing a metallic speedo (or something like) and popped a viagra before being scanned. Not sure about the speedo, but I do know he was... flexing.
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