MIT introduced a new wearable device to read your thoughts
Well, the device looks like a hearing aid but it does have the ability to read your thoughts (quite like mind reading). This device was developed in MIT Media Lab by the AlterEgo team consisting of approximately 5 people.
The device is pretty interesting and too much futuristic without a doubt. The bottom of the device is being attached closely to the jaw line in order to understand your internal voice.
Every single one of us think without shouting or making voice, we talk with yourself and that’s what these boys are trying to figure out. To make it much more simpler, imagine yourself controlling your television or mobile phone just by thinking about it.
You open your smartphone and suddenly you’re thinking about opening the Facebook application, you don’t have to utter a word, the device will get to know that you want the Facebook application to the opened and it will do the same (it’s not practically implemented yet, it was just an example).
Subvocalization
The video explains the concept of this device very clearly as you can see that guy walking around the supermarket looking out for products and making a calculation within his mind with the help of the device.
The device collects internal neuromuscular signals from the jawline and processes it with deep neural network powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. The devices finally processes the data and triggers a voice with bone conduction voice, which only you can hear.
At the prototype stage, the device is said to have 92% accuracy rate and a maximum capacity of undertaking 20 words. In the future, the device might get a better adaptable design, more accuracy and more words to make it really happen within the real world.
This is one of the greatest achievement by these MIT students who cooked up something really interesting in their MIT Media LAB. Technology is about to be explored, and more AI powered products will show up with time.
