Fingerprints, then DNA and now this

[genlock]

(WIRED) -- Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you've seen by reading your mind.
Researchers used fMRI technology to try to pull images out of peoples' brains.

Researchers used fMRI technology to try to pull images out of peoples' brains.

Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen.

Though practical applications are decades away, the research could someday lead to dream-readers and thought-controlled computers.

"It's what you would actually use if you were going to build a functional brain-reading device," said Jack Gallant, a University of California, Berkeley neuroscientis



Gonna make torture obsolete.
Recreational use excluded.

[Hoosier Daddy]

It's all part of Obama's plan to become the Kaiser of Planet Earth.

[genlock]

And Joe Biden would be the Frasier?

[jag]

It's all part of Obama's plan to become the Kaiser of Planet Earth.

Shame it wouldn't work on Republicans...for the most glaringly obvious of reasons.

[Bob Campbell]

Nothing better than a good turkey sandwich on a Kaiser roll....mmmmm.....turkey....

[Bar Rat]

Mythbusters actually did a segment on this in its application as a lie detector. It didn't fare too well -- it caught two of the three test subjects. For a lie detector, I don't think that's all that great.

[genlock]

Catch two out of three, beat the truth out of the other one.