lab reunion –
by Nishant Mehrotra
we play Chinese whispers with
only our minds
The idea of communicating with our thoughts alone is the stuff of science fiction that, thanks to a team at the University of Washington (Seattle) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), may soon become a reality. In their work (Jiang et. al., 2019), the researchers demonstrate the feasibility of multi-person brain-to-brain communication for the first time. Their system, BrainNet, is an exciting first step towards the future where the Internet might have human brains directly linked to it.
Original research: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41895-7
Nishant Mehrotra (@NMehrotratweets) is an electrical engineer by profession, but a poet by (his) admission. He blogs at nm30.blogs.rice.edu about RF and wireless research.