Can people communicate with brain waves?

It should be possible! Just take a look at this report below! Beijing time on September 18th news, according to the United States "Time" reported, in the 20th century on the battlefield, the sound of explosions deafening, officers to give orders, or soldiers to communicate with each other's views, can only shout. But now the U.S. military has just approved a $4 million project to develop "thought helmets," which can read human brain waves to achieve safe transmission of orders between troops, and ultimately only through the thinking of the troops within the system to achieve direct thought control. In other words, in the future, on the battlefield, you want to say something to whom, just need to go through the brain can be, do not have to make a sound, the other side can "hear" clearly. Only a few years ago, this idea is still considered crazy and absurd, but with the improvement of computer technology and scientists reveal the unique neural activity of human self-talk when the brain process, this idea becomes possible. The U.S. military's original concept was to use state-of-the-art software to capture brainwave activity and translate it into audible radio messages, which would then be passed on to other soldiers and officers on the battlefield. Dr. Alma Schmeisser, the U.S. Army's neuroscientist in charge of the program's development, said. It could be called radio broadcasting without microphones," said Dr. Alma Schmeisser, a U.S. Army neuroscientist in charge of the project. Since soldiers are required to speak clearly, concisely and programmatically in their daily training, it's easy for their thoughts to be conveyed in this form as well." Movie buffs may recall that Clint? Eastwood used similar "brainwave-decoder" technology in his 1982 film The Firefox, in which a Soviet fighter pilot can mind-control the weapons on board the plane that Eastwood is sent to steal. But the technology isn't as far-fetched as it seems - video game fans are waiting for a new commercial invention: San Francisco-based Emotiv will launch a $299 beginner's brainwave-controlled headset in the summer of 2009. The U.S. military isn't even close to being as fast as game fans in this regard, but the systems they're developing are far more complex and advanced, and will take at least a decade or two to come to fruition, let alone be used in concrete applications. Signed in August this year, this development contract for five years, from the University of California, Carnegie? The scientists from the University of California, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland have teamed up to embark on a "journey to decode brain waves". If successful, soldiers will be able to communicate relevant instructions and information to their surrounding comrades on the battlefield through wireless transmission simply by thinking about it in their minds. At the beginning, the robot's voice in the headset will be conveyed to the recipient of the instructions, but scientists hope to eventually realize the conveyor's voice to send instructions, and can show the distance of the conveyor and the direction of the recipient. In last year's contract pre-talks, the U.S. military has said, "Soldiers, if they mastered the way to convey information without voice, the future, whether on the battlefield or battlefield casualty treatment is significant, this revolutionary scientific and technological advances will make it possible for silent communication and transmission, no longer subject to the influence of sound and light in the external environment. " The most critical difficulty in the development process is the development of software that can accurately identify the brain waves associated with speech, when 128-bit sensors will be implanted in the soldier's helmet to extract the relevant brain waves. These sensors recognize the instantaneous electrical currents generated by neural activity when the brain is engaged in thought, and from these they generate an EEG on a computer screen, which scientists study to identify the key components of verbal communication. We thought it might be possible to analyze the EEG in a nutshell by using computer algorithms to decipher all the commands the brain sends to the mouth and lips," said Dr. Schmeisser. Unfortunately this process is not as simple as finding a correct brainwave; there are no golden neurons when it comes to language." The project's chief scientist, Dr. Mike D. Zumra from the University of California, said that his task was akin to looking for a needle in a haystack, not only searching carefully, but also rearranging and combining the elements to find the final answer. But as computers' computing power improves further, all this can be done in real time. Users will also need to be trained to think out loud, which means that they will be able to think in a way that leaves a clear and distinct signal on the EEG, as opposed to background noise, which scientists can then fully interpret. Finally, because each person's EEG is different, people using the Thinking Helmet are trained to adopt their own thought patterns so that the computer can intercept the unspoken commands. Scientists have to be the first to weed out the non-instructional brain waves that get mixed up in the brain. Many people have been able to interpret wireless signals and come up with what the brain is thinking, but doing it the other way around has never been done. Not only does it require willingness, but since human brain activity varies, it also has to be interpreted by a computer system so that it can't be done against a person's will or without his cooperation. It is also important not to lose sight of the value of the program's potential use in the civilian sphere. Are you often annoyed by people who talk loudly into their cell phones? If you could turn their Bluetooth headsets into Bluetooth helmets, they wouldn't even need to speak to make the other person understand what they're saying, and they'd also be able to give the people around them a quiet environment. Put it this way, I guess even pacifists would support this military program, which is a rarity.