Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

11-22-2009

By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves. Scientists at Intel's research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they can be used to operate computers, television sets and cell phones. The brain waves would be harnessed with Intel-developed sensors implanted in people's brains. The scientists say the plan is not a scene from a sci-fi movie -- Big Brother won't be planting chips in your brain against your will. Researchers expect that consumers will want the freedom they will gain by using the implant. "I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," said Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want tha

1 Comments in Response to Intel: Chips in brains will control computers by 2020

Comment by Lucky Red

Entered on: 11/22/2009 12:22:49 PM

If brainwaves will be needed to operate computers...oh, boy! I guess they won't be selling any here in the USA cause brains is one thing there's a great shortgage of in this country.

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