16:50 18 March 04
NewScientist.com news service
Preliminary results show the button-sized sensors, which attach under the chin and on either side of the Adam's apple and pick up nerve signals from the tongue, throat, and vocal cords, can indeed be used to read minds.
"Biological signals arise when reading or speaking to oneself with or without actual lip or facial movement," says Chuck Jorgensen, a neuroengineer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, in charge of the research.
The sensors have already been used to do simple web searches and may one day help space-walking astronauts and people who cannot talk communicate. The sensors could send commands to rovers on other planets, help injured astronauts control machines, or aid the handicapped.
In everyday life, they could even be used to communicate on the sly - people could use them on crowded buses without being overheard, say the NASA scientists.
Web search
For the first test of the sensors, scientists trained the software program to recognise six words - including "go", "left" and "right" - and 10 numbers. Participants hooked up to the sensors thought the words to themselves and the software correctly picked up the signals 92 per cent of the time.
Then researchers put the letters of the alphabet into a matrix with each column and row labelled with a single-digit number. In that way, each letter was represented by a unique pair of number co-ordinates. These were used to silently spell "NASA" into a web search engine using the mind-reading program.
"This proved we could browse the web without touching a keyboard," says Jorgensen.
Noisy settings
Phil Green, a computer scientist focusing on speech and hearing at the University of Sheffield, UK, called the research "interesting and novel" on hearing the news. "If you're not actually speaking but just thinking about speaking then at least some of the messages still get sent from the brain to the vocal tract," he says.
But he cautions the preliminary tests may have been successful because of the short lengths of the words and suggests the test be repeated on many different people to test the sensors work on everyone.
The initial success "doesn't mean it will scale up", he told New Scientist. "Small-vocabulary, isolated word recognition is a quite different problem than conversational speech, not just in scale but in kind."
He says conventional voice-recognition technology is more powerful than the apparent results of these sensors, and that "the obvious thing is to couple this with acoustics" to enhance communication in noisy settings.
The NASA team is now working on sensors that will detect signals through clothing.
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994795
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In this same arena, consider some stuff that has gone underground in the American media: Anyone out there remember the shows on TV from about the 70's that had to do with hypnotizing individuals and groups? Any mention of that kind of stuff has strangely disappeared in the media. But hypnotism is real...so...do we trust our "government" to not use it as a weapon, especially if they are already successfully using remote viewing as a tool?!?!?!?
Another one of those things on TV that has gone by the wayside: Russian mind control experiments on bears. Who knows what other kinds of animals were involved, but I saw with my own eyes, footage of a bear riding a bike with a high level of skill, AND swinging in a swing, just like humans. This bear actually grabbed the ropes of the swing and leaned back and forth, just like a human. When he or she rode the bike, he or she steared it with precision. The bear went into these actions with speed and smoothness. Every single animal act I have ever seen in a circus did not show anything near the level of ease this bear had. If this was just the result of training, then circuses around the world would adopt those techniques. After all, they would stand to gain, so why wouldn't they do it? And furthermore, this footage made the statement that this was the result of remote mind control experiments!!!
Not only that, but it gets more creepy. I have read from a couple of good sources that the CIA, or some other group, has devices on the tops of buildings that look like radio antenna's, and that they can actually broadcast a signal to PUT WORDS INTO YOUR HEAD. Supposedly they use this to make you do what they want, and you think these "thoughts" must be your own, because you don't know any better. And in the case where they want you to do something extreme, they make you think you are having a conversation with God, so that you will obey God.
This last part about causing thoughts is a lot to swallow. But it seems to make sense scientifically, because if they can find out which nerves are responsible for voice and word formation, then it would make sense that they could find the nerves in your brain that "hears" the words.--
Anyway, think about it and research it as much as you can.